Bug 608668

Summary:	sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.9 regression: failed to load wlwifi-7260-17.ucode with error -2
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	EoD <EoD>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=8029296#8029296
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description EoD 2017-02-08 21:51:17 UTC

The current stable kernel 4.9 fails to load iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode. This worked fine in the latest unstable version of sys-kernel/gentoo-source-4.8!

I have sys-kernel/linux-firmware-99999999 installed.

[    0.974762] Intel(R) Wireless WiFi driver for Linux
[    0.974763] Copyright(c) 2003- 2015 Intel Corporation
[    0.976725] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode failed with error -2
[    0.976730] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: no suitable firmware found!

See the gentoo-forums URL above for more details.

Comment 1 EoD 2017-02-09 20:08:15 UTC

The issue was that the firmware of the error message was not built into the kernel:

I fixed it by making sure that I had the following options set:

CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y 
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode" 
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware" 

I instead used the CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="iwlwifi-7260-16.ucode" by accident and didn't check as the dmesg error message complained about iwlwifi-7260--17.ucode