Package: firmware-iwlwifi Version: 20161130-3 Severity: normal I installed the package firmware-iwlwifi, and the firmware for my adapter would not load (according to dmesg).
I expected the firmware to load after I installed the firmware package. It use to work that way. I rebooted, and the firmware loaded properly. I wish the firmware package would at least print to the log that a reboot may be necessary, or that iwlwifi module needs to be manually loaded in order to load the firmware. There is really no way to tell why the firmware fails to load or what steps to take in the event it doesn't. I think the problem is due to a missing or incomplete udev rule for the iwlwifi module. I apologize, but I failed to condirm whether the module was loaded before I rebooted and got the firmware to load. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-7-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) firmware-iwlwifi depends on no packages. firmware-iwlwifi recommends no packages. Versions of packages firmware-iwlwifi suggests: ii initramfs-tools 0.130 -- no debconf information
