Re: Intel 8265/8275 microcode

[David Goodenough <dfgoodenough@googlemail.com>]

You are right, it was working all along, I just had another config error which
meant that it did not seem to be working.

I followed by usual problem solving which is to look for the first error
message.  Should have looked further. 

thanks for your help

David

On Saturday, 15 July 2017 23:58:56 BST Luca Coelho wrote:
> On Sat, 2017-07-15 at 10:03 +0100, David Goodenough wrote:
> > I have a laptop which reports the wifi adapter to be an 8265/8275 rev 78
> > and the driver complains that it can not find:-
> > 
> > iwlwifi-8265-23.ucode
> > iwlwifi-8265-24.ucode
> > iwlwifi-8265-25.ucode
> > iwlwifi-8265-26.ucode
> > iwlwifi-8265-27.ucode
> > iwlwifi-8265-28.ucode
> > 
> > and they not appear to be in the kernel.org github.  Where do I find
> > them and could they be added to github?
> 
> Does your wifi card work? The driver tries to find one of the supported
> versions, starting from highest and going down to the lowest.  It seems
> that you have -22.ucode and, if that's the case, everything should be
> fine and you can ignore these messages.
> 
> It is an old known problem that there is no way to try to load a
> firmware without getting an error message.  People are working on
> solving this, but until then, just ignore this messages and everything
> should be fine. :)
> 
> --
> Cheers,
> Luca.