drivers - Loading Wireless Firmware - Ask Ubuntu


i have laptop 802.11ad chipset wilocity works on windows. whereas, on ubuntu 16.04.1 gives me message firmware missing , not available download driver available in os. have firmware file (wil6210.fw) tried copy /lib/firmware , disable , enable wireless adapters (in-order load firmware) nothing changed , still getting missing firmware message. there more steps need do?

here output of dmesg | grep wil

[   12.179378] ext4-fs (sda5): write access enabled during recovery [   12.946471] ext4-fs (sda7): write access enabled during recovery [   21.112528] wil6210 0000:02:00.0: wil6210 device found [1ae9:0310] (rev 2) [   21.130367] wil6210 0000:02:00.0 (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): csr @ [mem 0xc1200000-0xc13fffff 64bit] -> 0xffffc90002c00000 [   21.145861] wil6210 0000:02:00.0 (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): board hardware sparrow b0 [   21.202753] wil6210 0000:02:00.0 (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): boot loader struct v2: mac = 04:ce:14:07:59:21 rf = 0x0000 (status 0x0000) bband = 0x00000000 [   21.202758] wil6210 0000:02:00.0 (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): boot loader build 255.255.0.6836 [   21.710282] wil6210 0000:02:00.0 wlp2s0: renamed wlan0 [   23.552807] wil6210 0000:02:00.0 wlp2s0: boot loader struct v2: mac = 04:ce:14:07:59:21 rf = 0x0000 (status 0x0000) bband = 0x00000000 [   23.552811] wil6210 0000:02:00.0 wlp2s0: boot loader build 255.255.0.6836 [   23.552813] wil6210 0000:02:00.0 wlp2s0: use firmware <wil6210.fw> + board <wil6210.brd> [   23.553080] wil6210 0000:02:00.0: direct firmware load wil6210.fw failed error -2 [   23.553083] wil6210 0000:02:00.0 wlp2s0: err[ fw ]failed load firmware wil6210.fw 


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