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I having problems with wifi. I find the firmware. It is .tgz but I don't know how to install it. My wifi card is Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 3160 (rev 93) I'm using Ubuntu 14.04

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This link: https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi includes information regarding the download and installation for Intel HW.

According to that link, installation is simple and done by: cp iwlwifi-*.ucode /lib/firmware. I recommend you read it first.

Generally speaking, for a tarball included .tgz file, which is essentially an archive (like RAR, ZIP etc), you may use the following:

  1. Using GUI go to the folder you've downloaded it in, and right click your mouse to select 'extract here'.
  2. Then using CLI (the terminal), go to the directory in which it was extracted (cd [directory]) and input ./configure, make and make install - in that order.