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linux-firmware package

  1. Bug #1293569
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 1293569

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Seth Forshee (sforshee) wrote : Re: [Bug 1293569] Re: iwlwifi-7260-8.ucode causes network disconnections problems

On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 02:52:41PM -0000, Daniel Manrique wrote:
> I'm on a Dell XPS 13 with Ubuntu 14.04 with kernel 3.13.0-24 and I'm not
> affected by this problem. I checked and, even though the -8 firmware
> exists in /lib/firmware, my iwlwifi module is only loading the -7
> firmware.
>
> If this can help in any way (i.e. why is my laptop loading the -7 module
> while other presumably identical ones aren't) please let me know, I can
> provide any details or diagnostic information needed.

Are you sure that it loads -7? Beware, modinfo seems to be lying (well,
actually iwlwifi is lying and modinfo just repeats the lie).

What does 'dmesg | grep "iwlwifi .* loaded firmware version"' say?