Luca Coelho <luca@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, 2016-12-28 at 11:59 +0800, Peter Xu wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 09:46:55PM +0200, Kalle Valo wrote: >> > Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> > >> > > Looks like latest Linux master (4.10-rc1, 7ce7d89f) cannot work well >> > > with my wireless card, which is: >> > > >> > > Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev bb) >> > > >> > > Boot message shows that no suitable firmware found: >> > > >> > > # journalctl -kp3 >> > > Dec 27 16:38:00 kernel: Error parsing PCC subspaces from PCCT >> > > Dec 27 16:38:00 kernel: mmc0: Unknown controller version (3). You may experience problems. >> > > Dec 27 16:38:02 kernel: DMAR: DRHD: handling fault status reg 2 >> > > Dec 27 16:38:02 kernel: DMAR: [DMA Write] Request device [00:02.0] fault addr 7200000000 [fault reason 05] PTE Write a >> > > Dec 27 16:38:03 kernel: tpm tpm0: A TPM error (6) occurred attempting to read a pcr value >> > > Dec 27 16:38:04 kernel: iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: no suitable firmware found! >> > > >> > > Linux stable/master (Linux 4.8-rc8, 08895a8b6b) works for me. And no >> > > further tests have been done yet. >> > > >> > > Is this a known issue? Please let me know if anyone wants more info or >> > > logs, since this error triggers easily (everytime I boot). >> > >> > The error message isn't really telling much to the user (hint hint) but >> > I suspect this is by design: >> > >> > "iwlwifi: remove support for fw older than -17 and -22 > > Right, we only maintain support for a certain number of firmware > versions. The FW APIs change with time and we don't want to keep all > legacy code supporting old firmwares in the driver forever. > > I agree that "no suitable firmware found!" is a bit scarce. I'll see > if we can improve that with something: "no suitable firmware found! You > need iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode (<link to git>)". Yeah, something like that would be much more helpful for the user. -- Kalle Valo
