Re: iwl8000 driver in Fedora 24

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On 07/22/2016 10:22 AM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> 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?

I'll look into it. Hopefully I'll have something by the end of today.

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