Re: iwlwifi

[Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com>]

On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 05:47:54PM +0000, emerald1475 wrote:
> I am running debian testing on a modern dell inspiron. My kernel (5.6.0-1-amd64) cant seem to load the iwlwifi driver.
> 
> dmesg:
> --------------------
> [ 2.571320] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-QuZ-a0-jf-b0-52.ucode (-2)
> [ 2.572778] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-QuZ-a0-jf-b0-52.ucode failed with error -2
> [ 2.574250] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-QuZ-a0-jf-b0-51.ucode (-2)
> [ 2.575711] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-QuZ-a0-jf-b0-51.ucode failed with error -2
> [ 2.577203] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-QuZ-a0-jf-b0-50.ucode (-2)
> [ 2.578223] usb 1-10: New USB device found, idVendor=8087, idProduct=0aaa, bcdDevice= 0.02
> [ 2.578643] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-QuZ-a0-jf-b0-50.ucode failed with error -2
> -----------------------
> I've check intels website (https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005511/network-and-i-o/wireless-networking.html) and firmware-iwlwifi. But both of these packages only have the microcode for up to version 48.
> 
> Am i missing something?
>

Yes some reasonable description.
What wlan device is in your "modern" inspiron? Do you think everybody has the spec in their head?
So please post the output of
hwinfo --wlan

And what did you do to install the firmware? Did you include non-free in your sources? Did you install
the firmware from there? Exactly what did you install?

-H



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