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I am unable to connect to wifi - the option of wireless connectivity is not shown; there is the only the option of ethernet. I am using Ubuntu version 16.04.

$ lspci -knn | grep Net -A2
05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:24fb] (rev 10)
    DeviceName: Intel Dual BandWireless-AC 3168 802.11 ac 1x1 WiFi + BT 4.0 Combo Adapter
    Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2110] 

$ ifconfig wlan0
wlan0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
$ modprobe iwl3945
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'iwl3945': Operation not permitted
$ ifconfig wlan0 up
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device

the screen shot of the problem wifi option is not there top right corner

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Ambuj Dhakad
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This adapter is supported since kernel 4.6.

The kernel version in Ubuntu 16.04 is 4.4.

You can install kernel 4.8 to Ubuntu 16.04 this way:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:canonical-kernel-team/ppa 
sudo apt update
sudo apt install linux-generic-lts-yakkety
sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:canonical-kernel-team/ppa

Reboot after you do it.

After the linux-generic-lts-yakkety package appears in main Ubuntu repositories (it should happen soon) it will start getting updates.

You also need to install firmware this can be done by

wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_1.161_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux-firmware_1.161_all.deb
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