

- #INTEL CENTRINO WIRELESS N 1000 NOT FINDING 5GHZ SERIAL#
- #INTEL CENTRINO WIRELESS N 1000 NOT FINDING 5GHZ DRIVERS#
- #INTEL CENTRINO WIRELESS N 1000 NOT FINDING 5GHZ UPDATE#
To anyone with the same problem, if you must use the 5GHz band there's two options: Downgrade your kernel version or buy a different card (the dual-band 7260 costs about $25). It seems that the new kernel simply identified the card correctly, so it only allows the card to pick up 2.4GHz networks, as its supposed to. I swapped out an Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 from my old laptop.
#INTEL CENTRINO WIRELESS N 1000 NOT FINDING 5GHZ DRIVERS#
The drivers for the single-band version just have the 5GHz band deactivated. I assume that all three versions can pick up AC networks as well. So, apparently the Dual Band and single-band versions of the Wireless-N 7260 are the same piece of hardware. Your Maintenance and Service Guide should give you the compatible adapters for this notebook for 5ghz.

There is an N mode for 2.4ghz which makes it easy to confuse it with a 5 ghz. The wireless card inside of my laptop was in fact the single-band 7260. After looking up the specs, Intel wifi link 1000 bgn is not capable of 5ghz. The Toshiba Satellite P55 requires you to remove the whole bottom panel to access anything inside. When I uninstalled it and reconnected it, it did not detect the adapter at all. I saw somewhere that you should uninstall the device and reconnect the adapter to reinstall it. I eventually hung up, as the conversation led nowhere. My wifi has not been working for about a month now, and I am getting very frustrated. He came just short of accusing me of lying, and I came just short of offering to send him a video of the card picking up 5GHz networks.

I also told him several times that the Intel Web site reports my card as the AC version. I assured him that my laptop is able to see 5GHz networks in Linux.
#INTEL CENTRINO WIRELESS N 1000 NOT FINDING 5GHZ SERIAL#
After asking for the laptop's serial number, the representative insisted that my model comes with the single-band 7260, not the dual-band version. I don't have an AC router, so it's impossible to determine if my card picks up AC networks. According to Intels white sheet for the Intel® Centrino® Wireless-N 1000, it should be able to utilize the N grade WiFi speed. Note that there are three versions of the 7260: single-band, dual-band, and AC. Hello all, I am having issue enabling the 802.11n settings for my WiFi card that is supposed to have N grade (300 Mbps) capabilities. The the utility detected my card as the AC version of the 7260.
#INTEL CENTRINO WIRELESS N 1000 NOT FINDING 5GHZ UPDATE#
at the time had plenty of those.įrom Windows, I used the driver update utility from the Intel Web site. I assumed it was a driver issue, as Windows 8.1. In Windows, the card has only picked the 2.4GHz networks from the first day I bought the laptop. This issue has been resolved, though not in the way that I wanted.
