How To Install backport-iwlwifi-dkms on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install backport-iwlwifi-dkms
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is backport-iwlwifi-dkms
backport-iwlwifi-dkms is:
Intel works with periodic releases of the iwlwifi driver that are tested with a specific combination of components such as firmware and hostap. These releases can be seen as snapshots of the development trees (including upstream) that can be used on older kernels.
This package provides iwlwifi modules built from iwlwifi-public defconfig based on upstream master branch.
Package: backport-iwlwifi-dkms Architecture: all Version: 8324-0ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: universe/kernel Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: You-Sheng Yang [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 9804 Provides: iwlwifi-modules Depends: dkms (>= 2.1.0.0), libc6-dev | libc-dev Filename: pool/universe/b/backport-iwlwifi-dkms/backport-iwlwifi-dkms_8324-0ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 1567408 MD5sum: a58508202d4698f9bf6faa7da4b5cb76 SHA1: 21c5876d7dba28775370e59ba3d85b9372c7068a SHA256: 9aa89d2aed8333230261619a07620cdea02671f497a98a77052d0be57e17abb9 Homepage: https://gitlab.com/vicamo/backport-iwlwifi-dkms Description-en: iwlwifi driver backport in DKMS format Intel works with periodic releases of the iwlwifi driver that are tested with a specific combination of components such as firmware and hostap. These releases can be seen as snapshots of the development trees (including upstream) that can be used on older kernels.
This package provides iwlwifi modules built from iwlwifi-public defconfig based on upstream master branch. Modaliases: cfg80211(net-pf-16-proto-16-family-nl80211), iwlwifi(pci:v00008086d000002F0svsdbcsci*, pci:v00008086d000006F0svsdbcsci*, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd00004020bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd0000402Abcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd00004060bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd00004062bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd0000406Abcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd00004070bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd00004072bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd00004160bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd00004162bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd00004170bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd00004420bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd00004460bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd00004462bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd0000446Abcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd00004470bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd00004472bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd00004560bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd00004570bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd0000486Ebcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd00004870bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd00004A6Cbcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd00004A6Ebcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd00004A70bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd00004C60bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd00004C70bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd00005070bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd00005072bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd00005170bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd00005770bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd0000C020bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd0000C02Abcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd0000C060bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd0000C062bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd0000C06Abcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd0000C070bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd0000C072bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd0000C160bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd0000C162bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd0000C170bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd0000C360bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd0000C420bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd0000C460bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd0000C462bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd0000C470bcsci, pci:v00008086d000008B1svsd0000C472bcsci, 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There are three methods to install backport-iwlwifi-dkms
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install backport-iwlwifi-dkms Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install backport-iwlwifi-dkms
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install backport-iwlwifi-dkms
Install backport-iwlwifi-dkms Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install backport-iwlwifi-dkms
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install backport-iwlwifi-dkms
Install backport-iwlwifi-dkms Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install backport-iwlwifi-dkms
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install backport-iwlwifi-dkms
How To Uninstall backport-iwlwifi-dkms on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the backport-iwlwifi-dkms
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove backport-iwlwifi-dkms
Uninstall backport-iwlwifi-dkms And Its Dependencies
To uninstall backport-iwlwifi-dkms
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove backport-iwlwifi-dkms
Remove backport-iwlwifi-dkms Configurations and Data
To remove backport-iwlwifi-dkms
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge backport-iwlwifi-dkms
Remove backport-iwlwifi-dkms configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove backport-iwlwifi-dkms
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge backport-iwlwifi-dkms
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install backport-iwlwifi-dkms
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.