Package: firmware-iwlwifi Version: 20170823-1 Severity: normal Tags: newcomer
When booting with firmware-iwlwifi installed the follwong error(a) is (are) displayed: [ 2.873411] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-8000C-34.ucode (-2) [ 2.873449] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-8000C-34.ucode failed with error -2 [ 2.873463] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-8000C-33.ucode (-2) [ 2.873498] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-8000C-33.ucode failed with error -2 [ 2.873508] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-8000C-32.ucode (-2) [ 2.873544] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-8000C-32.ucode failed with error -2 WiFi is initialy working, but it has strange problems waking up after sleep. It will behave unpredictable and sometimes a reboot is required to get WiFi back. When I download iwlwifi-8000C-34.ucode from http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/linux-firmware/ and copy it it /lib/firmware, the error disapears. Also, the problems with WiFi and waking up are gone. Apparently iwlwifi-8000C-34.ucode is not provided by firmware-iwlwifi (20170823-1). This on debian buster with linux kernel 4.14.0-3-amd64. My laptop (Lenovo X1 Carbon 4th gen.) has as Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled firmware-iwlwifi depends on no packages. firmware-iwlwifi recommends no packages. Versions of packages firmware-iwlwifi suggests: ii initramfs-tools 0.130
