Bug 17497

Summary:	iwlwifi firmware fails to load
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Ojangu <jaanus.ojangu>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Thomas Backlund <tmb>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	kernel-firmware-nonfree-20151120-1.mga6.nonfree.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Ojangu 2016-01-14 19:44:51 CET

Description of problem:
dmesg output:
[   66.950295] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-7265-18.ucode failed with error -2
[   66.950299] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Falling back to user helper
[  126.953879] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-7265-17.ucode failed with error -2
[  126.953882] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Falling back to user helper


How reproducible:
Happens at every boot

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot up laptop

$ lspcidrake |grep -i netw
iwlwifi         : Intel Corporation|Wireless 7265 [NETWORK_OTHER] (rev: 48)

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Ojangu 2016-01-14 19:46:27 CET

After some time firmware gets loaded successfully:
[  186.962162] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: loaded firmware version 16.242414.0 op_mode iwlmvm
[  187.001985] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless AC 7265, REV=0x184
[  187.002381] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled
[  187.002826] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled
[  187.076710] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-mvm-rs'
[  187.080868] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0 wlo1: renamed from wlan0

Comment 2 Thomas Backlund 2016-01-14 20:06:21 CET

Yeah, Intel has not officially submitted api 18 or api 17 firmwares upstream yet, they are only in the iwlwifi tree so far...

That's why it falls back to user helper loader to load the older ones

I will look into syncing with iwlwifi tree soon-ish if they dont push upstream in some days...

Comment 3 Ojangu 2016-01-23 15:17:50 CET

Same wifi working under Mageia5 very weii and quicly.

Comment 4 Thomas Backlund 2016-01-28 14:28:07 CET

Newest upstream available iwlwifi firmware pushed as part of kernel-firmware-nonfree-20160127-1.mga6 / iwlwifi-agn-ucode-20160127-1.mga6

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED