I recently purchased a new Lenovo u430 ideapad that came stock with Windows 8. Windows 8 works perfectly with the touch screen laptop, it’s pretty amazing really.

That being said, i need a development environment for ruby on rails that is portable so I setup the system to dual boot into Ubuntu 12.04

After repartitioning the C drive so that i had an extra 60 GB of space and install Ubuntu everything worked pretty-OK with the laptop, except the wireless.

I ran the following code
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lshw -C network
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And my wireless network came back as unclaimed, which means that the proper drivers are not in place for it to work correctly. This is what it looked like
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo lshw -c network
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: Wireless 7260
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
version: 63

Download the Correct Drivers

Then run the following commands

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cd Desktop/backports-3.11-rc3-1/
make defconfig-iwlwifi
make
sudo make install
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reboot your laptop and all should be well.