Bug#939262: firmware-iwlwifi: Consider update to newest version (20190815)
I'll chime in that I'm also affected on this same hardware, manual install
works but it would be preferred if the package was updated.
On Mon, 02 Sep 2019 09:57:32 -0400 Sean Enck <enckse@voidedtech.com> wrote:
> Package: firmware-iwlwifi
> Version: 20190717-2
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> It looks like a newer version of modules is available as version 20190815:
>
>
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tag/?h=20190815
>
> I have a newer Lenovo Yoga X1 (Gen 4) and the 20190717 wifi firmware
> does not work ("SYNC CMD GEO_TX_POWER_LIMIT" error). Through some
> searching I saw that there were other reports of upgrades needed to the
> underlying firmware. I manually installed 20190815 and this resolved the
> issue (wifi works now)
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: bullseye/sid
> APT prefers unstable
> APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
>
> firmware-iwlwifi depends on no packages.
>
> firmware-iwlwifi recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages firmware-iwlwifi suggests:
> ii initramfs-tools 0.135
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
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