On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 3:21 PM Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev <[email protected]> wrote: > > Requesting help. > > I'm rebuilding my laptop with latest development lfs/blfs and am having > some kernel 4.19.8 issues. > > My laptop has both wired and wireless network interfaces. The wired > interface is fine but the wireless interface is not being recognized. > > For kernel 4.13.8, everything is fine. The firmware related kernel > options are: > > CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y > CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y > CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="intel/ibt-hw-37.7.10-fw-1.80.2.3.d.bseq > iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode" > CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="firmware" > CONFIG_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP=y > > and dmesg gives: > > [ 1.516228] Bluetooth: hci0: Intel Bluetooth firmware file: > intel/ibt-hw-37.7.10-fw-1.80.2.3.d.bseq > [ 1.734116] Bluetooth: hci0: Intel Bluetooth firmware patch completed > and activated > [ 5.077436] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: loaded firmware version 17.459231.0 > op_mode iwlmvm > > For 4.19.8 I have: > > CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y > CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="intel/ibt-hw-37.7.10-fw-1.80.2.3.d.bseq > iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode" > CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="firmware" > CONFIG_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP=y > > There is no CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL option for this kernel version. > > dmesg now gives only: > > [ 0.316853] platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for > regulatory.db failed with error -2 > > There are some things I found about something called regdb, but that > doesn't explain to me why the firmware isn't loading. > > Any ideas?
I'm not much help, but I thought I would chime in and let you know that I was having similar issues, so I built LFS 8.0 and BLFS 8.0 so that I could use the longest running stable kernel (currently 4.9.146). -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
