Re: iwl8000 driver in Fedora 24

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On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Dusty Mabe <dusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 07/22/2016 09:40 AM, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Dusty Mabe <dusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I have the Lenovo T460s with the Intel Wireless AC 8260 chip in it.
>>> According to the page at [1], that chip is supported by the
>>> iwlwifi-8000 firmware. I don't see that package as an option in the
>>> Fedora 24 repos [2]. The newest I see is the 7260. Googling around
>>> hasn't led me to a solution. Anybody else having this same problem?
>>
>> [jwboyer@x1 ~]$ rpm -ql iwl7260-firmware | grep 8000
>> /usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-8000C-13.ucode
>> /usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-8000C-16.ucode
>> /usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-8000C-21.ucode
>>
>> It's packaged in the iwl7260-firmware package.
>>
>
> Thanks for the info. Could we have the info for the package updated to
> indicate that?
<snip?>
> From the description/summary it seems that packaged is pretty focused
> and doesn't indicate it would work for anything else.
>
> If it would have read (and supports 8260) then I would have installed
> and use that from the beginning.

Seems like a good suggestion.  Care to send a patch?

FWIW, packaging the iwl firmware as split out subpackages has proven
to be a royal pain.

josh
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