On 28.11.2014 01:40, Hanno Böck wrote: > Hi, > > I have an X1 Carbon laptop with an intel 7260 chip. > > The automatic firmware loading doesn't work (kernel 3.17.2). I get this > in dmesg: > [ 1.615155] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for > iwlwifi-7260-10.ucode failed with error -2 > > The firmware then gets loaded by the userspace helper, however as far > as I understand it (and the description of the kernel option) this is > deprecated and shouldn't be used. Also, it takes quite a while > (minutes) till the wifi is available after boot which is quite annoying. > > Any idea what I should do to debug/fix this? Is this a bug? (firmware > is the latest from intel's page, 23.10.10.0) > Most probably your rootfs is not yet mounted, when the driver attempts to load the firmware file. As a workaround try to compile iwlwifi as a module. When rootfs is mounted, the module is loaded and the driver should pick up firmware. -- With best wishes, Vladimir -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
