Bug#1023240: firmware-iwlwifi: iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-72.ucode possibly missing

[Sergio Gelato]

It was added to linux-firmware.git after 2022-10-12, should be in 20221109:

commit 06dbfbc74388a2e9a7228f4215b884a3139ece56
Author: Gregory Greenman 
Date:   Wed Oct 26 12:15:12 2022 +0300

iwlwifi: add new FWs from core69-81 release

Add the -69.ucode firmwares for the currently supported hardware.
This is not the latest core, but we didn't send it before and it still
can be useful.

I'll check tomorrow whether it will cure the errors I'm getting with kernel
5.19.11-1~bpo11+1 on an AX211 with -71.ucode (regression from 5.18.16-1~bpo11+1
which works on the same hardware/firmware combo).

Bug#1023240: firmware-iwlwifi: iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-72.ucode possibly missing

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Package: firmware-iwlwifi
Version: 20221012-1
Severity: normal


Hey there.

There possibly is a firmware file missing. In the kernel log I see:
# dmesg | grep -i wifi
[  158.112234] Intel(R) Wireless WiFi driver for Linux
[  158.114662] iwlwifi :00:14.3: firmware: failed to load 
iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-72.ucode (-2)
[  158.114669] iwlwifi :00:14.3: firmware: failed to load 
iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-72.ucode (-2)
[  158.114670] iwlwifi :00:14.3: Direct firmware load for 
iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-72.ucode failed with error -2
[  158.116799] iwlwifi :00:14.3: firmware: direct-loading firmware 
iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-71.ucode
[  158.116804] iwlwifi :00:14.3: api flags index 2 larger than supported by 
driver
[  158.116822] iwlwifi :00:14.3: TLV_FW_FSEQ_VERSION: FSEQ Version: 0.0.2.36
[  158.117057] iwlwifi :00:14.3: firmware: failed to load 
iwl-debug-yoyo.bin (-2)
[  158.117061] iwlwifi :00:14.3: firmware: failed to load 
iwl-debug-yoyo.bin (-2)
[  158.117063] iwlwifi :00:14.3: loaded firmware version 71.058653f6.0 
so-a0-gf-a0-71.ucode op_mode iwlmvm
[  158.278035] iwlwifi :00:14.3: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6E AX211 160MHz, 
REV=0x370
[  158.451222] iwlwifi :00:14.3: firmware: direct-loading firmware 
iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0.pnvm
[  158.451242] iwlwifi :00:14.3: loaded PNVM version 881c99e1
[  158.466456] iwlwifi :00:14.3: Detected RF GF, rfid=0x2010d000
[  158.536276] iwlwifi :00:14.3: base HW address: 7c:b5:66:f7:a8:a5
[  165.944059] iwlwifi :00:14.3: Unhandled alg: 0x707

So it first tries to load iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-72.ucode, which fails and only
then tries iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-71.ucode, which does in fact succeed...
and as far as I can see the device *is* working.

So maybe this is a non-issue, but maybe the missing file should be added.

Cheers,
Chris.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
merged-usr: no
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=en_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
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  0.142

-- no debconf information