gentoo-sources-3.14.14 has just been marked stable on amd64 =sys-firmware/iwl7260-ucode-23.214.9.0 is the recommended firmware to use with this kernel No firmware compatible with this card/kernel is included in the stable linux-firmware ebuild (=linux-firmware-20131230). I have been testing this firmware version with many 3.14.x and 3.15.x kernels for some time. Seems to operate flawlessly. Reproducible: Always
I think the ebuild can be made stable. I could only test the firmware occasionally on a machine on loan. In my tests I found often when I booted gentoo-sources 3.15.5 (and with earlier kernel versions) that often on boot, the intel wifi drivers would go into and infinite loop of failures to load the firmware, and this happened with this firmware version, and the previous 2 firmware releases (i.e. with every available firmware release). The only workaround was to reboot and try again, sometimes it would work. Since I don't own the hardware I can't help with providing information to debug that problem.
Should probably be noted that a new version 25.222.9.0 has been released, which may affect stabilisation decisions. If there's anything I can do to help test please get in touch, running dual-band N version (7260HMW AN).
Furthermore 25.222.9.0 is now the recommended version for kernel 3.14+ (currently marked stable on amd64) I will move to testing this version now.
Julian Simioni and David Flogeras provided an update to 25.228.9.0 and tested it, maybe that might work better.
25.228.9.0 is the version I'm now using on my laptop. As above I've seen no problems with this version but it's not even in ~arch yet. I don't have my ebuild to hand but it's just a version number change from the existing one.
Changed Summary from: sys-firmware/iwl7260-ucode-23.214.9.0 stable request to sys-firmware/iwl7260-ucode-25.228.9.0 stable request sys-firmware/iwl7260-ucode-25.228.9.0 has only just been added to ~arch. This ebuild was provided by users, we have 3 reports that 25.228.9.0 works well. I do not have the hardware to test it. I tested earlier versions with loaner hardware earlier and encountered problems (as noted in comment 1).
23.10.10.0 has just been released too, you need this for 3.17+ Weird versioning scheme...
23.10.10.0 includes the iwlwifi-7260-10.ucode firmware (rather than -9) so it can be a new slot
The version numbers are now reversed in portage - as I just learned that upstream have their version numbers in reverse.
This request cannot be completed because of the following repoman error(s): sys-firmware/iwl7260-ucode/iwl7260-ucode-0.9.228.25.ebuild: RDEPEND: amd64(default/linux/amd64/13.0) ['sys-firmware/iwl3160-7260-bt-ucode'] Since the amd64 team is unable to continue this task, I'm removing the amd64 arch team from the CC field. Feel free to cc the amd64 arch team again when you provide the complete list of the missing dependencies.
what are the versions to get stabilized finally?
According to http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi/ we should be using 0.10.11.23 for kernels 3.17+ Since kernel 3.18.2 is stable on all arches this would probably be the version to stabilise.
Please provide the list of versions to stabilize and CC arches to finally get this stable :)
