Had some time for some manual tweaking on this today, so on a whim I wanted to see if the latest firmware from the kernel git repo worked. Currently with: a) the current bluetooth firmware from firmware-iwlwifi 20180518-1 b) the latest iwlwifi-8265-36.ucode from the kernel git (36.9f0a2d68.0 according to dmesg) ...I can confirm that the bluetooth firmware loads and the adapter works correctly. With the version included in 20180825+dfsg-1 (36.e91976c0.0 according to the changelog), the bluetooth firmware fails to load as per my original report. At the moment I've no idea which of the firmware files inside /lib/firmware/intel correspond to the bluetooth firmware for this chip so I've left those alone for the time being. On 2018-12-18 18:21, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
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