iwlwifi -13.ucode doesn't load

[Haw Loeung]

Hi Guys,

Reading through the linux-firmware changelog, it seems that -13.ucode was cherrypicked from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/egrumbach/linux-firmware.git and included in 1.145. However, seems it's not loaded and being used.

| [hloeung@ragnar ~]$ apt-cache policy linux-firmware
| linux-firmware:
| Installed: 1.145
| Candidate: 1.145
| Version table:
| *** 1.145 0
| 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64 Packages
| 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

| [hloeung@ragnar ~]$ modinfo iwlwifi | grep '^firmware'
| ...
| firmware: iwlwifi-7265D-12.ucode
| firmware: iwlwifi-7265-12.ucode
| firmware: iwlwifi-3160-IWL3160_UCODE_API_OK.ucode
| firmware: iwlwifi-7260-12.ucode
| firmware: iwlwifi-8000-12.ucode

-13.ucode exists on disk though:

| [hloeung@ragnar ~]$ ls -la /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-*13*
| -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 701228 Nov 25 2014 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-135-6.ucode
| -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 688616 Jul 11 00:11 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3160-13.ucode
| -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 786920 Jul 11 00:11 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-7260-13.ucode
| -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 885224 Jul 11 00:11 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-7265-13.ucode
| -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1008692 Jul 11 00:11 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-7265D-13.ucode
| -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1745176 Jul 11 00:11 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-8000C-13.ucode

I've tried unloading iwlwifi and iwlmvm and reloading without any luck.

| [hloeung@ragnar ~]$ uname -a
| Linux ragnar.local 4.1.0-2-generic #2-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 22 18:19:08 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Thanks,

Haw

[Haw Loeung (hloeung)]

Ah, ignore that. As per It seems ethtool is the way to go.

| [hloeung@ragnar ~]$ ethtool -i wlan0
| driver: iwlwifi
| version: 4.1.0-2-generic
| firmware-version: 25.17.12.0
| ...

[Haw Loeung (hloeung)]

Err,:

| [hloeung@ragnar ~]$ ethtool -i wlan0
| driver: iwlwifi
| version: 4.1.0-2-generic
| firmware-version: 25.30.13.0
| ...

Previous was due to me playing around and moving the -13.ucode file out of place.