On Wed, 2022-01-26 at 10:32 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > Hi-- > > On 1/25/22 23:12, Coelho, Luciano wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Adding Golan to the thread. > > > > On Tue, 2022-01-25 at 18:20 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > > > > On 1/25/22 15:58, Ben Greear wrote: > > > > On 1/25/22 3:08 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > When I boot 5.16 or 5.17-rc1, I get messages like: > > > > > > > > > > iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: api flags index 2 larger than supported by driver > > > > > iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: TLV_FW_FSEQ_VERSION: FSEQ Version: 89.3.35.37 > > > > > iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: loaded firmware version 67.8f59b80b.0 QuZ-a0-hr-b0-67.ucode op_mode iwlmvm > > > > > > > > We see nothing but crashes with the version 67 firmware. Remove that > > > > from your /lib/firmware/ dir (and make sure version 66 or lower is there), > > > > and reboot and it should work again. > > > > > > Well. Yes, that does make things work for me. > > > > > > It's odd, though, that openSUSE Tumbleweed with kernel "Linux version 5.16.1-1-default" > > > (whatever that is) also works with no problems. > > > > > > Thanks for your help. > > > > This is because of broadcast filtering. This feature hasn't been > > supported for quite a while and now the firmware rejects the command we > > send to it. > > > > The easy fix is to compile iwlwifi without > > CONFIG_IWLWIFI_BCAST_FILTERING (which should not be enabled by > > default). > > Just confirming that kernel 5.16 without broadcast filtering works > with firmware v67. Great, thanks for the confirmation! Just out of curiosity. How did you end up with broadcast filtering enabled? Is it a default configuration from some distro? > > I have removed this option from the driver now and will send the patch > > to 5.17-rc* as a fix. > > Yes, please. Will do. -- Cheers, Luca.
