[Impact]
Wifi is not functional.
[Fix]
Cherry-pick relevant FW files.
[Where Problems Could Occur]
Only machines with relevant Wifi HW is affected. Potential crashes and hangs dues to bad FW.
[Summary]
I just upgraded my pc from 23.04 to 23.10,
and found that my wifi was dead, turn out it's because the firmware load failed.
[Reproduce Steps]
1. Upgrade 23.04 to 23.10
[Results]
Expected: firmware can be loaded
Actual: firmware load failed
[Additional Information]
1. The firmware can be loaded successfully in 23.04
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.10
Package: linux-firmware 20230919.git3672ccab-0ubuntu2.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-10.10-generic 6.5.3
Uname: Linux 6.5.0-10-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.27.0-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CRDA: N/A
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Nov 4 16:58:00 2023
Dependencies: firmware-sof-signed 2.2.6-1ubuntu1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-02-09 (268 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20220419)
MachineType: {report['dmi.sys.vendor']} {report['dmi.product.name']}
ProcFB: 0 EFI VGA
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.5.0-10-generic root=UUID=d2e4673c-e5fe-4a04-8647-bc56a5fa2a08 ro quiet splash nvidia.NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1 vt.handoff=7
RelatedPackageVersions:
linux-restricted-modules-6.5.0-10-generic N/A
linux-backports-modules-6.5.0-10-generic N/A
linux-firmware 20230919.git3672ccab-0ubuntu2.1
RfKill:
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
SourcePackage: linux-firmware
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to mantic on 2023-11-04 (0 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 01/06/2023
dmi.bios.release: 8.9
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 0809
dmi.board.asset.tag: Default string
dmi.board.name: PRIME Z790-P WIFI
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Default string
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Default string
dmi.chassis.version: Default string
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr0809:bd01/06/2023:br8.9:svnASUS:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnPRIMEZ790-PWIFI:rvrRev1.xx:cvnDefaultstring:ct3:cvrDefaultstring:skuSKU:
dmi.product.family: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.product.name: System Product Name
dmi.product.sku: SKU
dmi.product.version: System Version
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUS
That error in itself is not problematic. The kernel walks down until it finds an (older) FW to load, in our case that's -81. However, there are lots of kernel traces in the log related to wifi which could be due to old(er) FW.
Can you download the latest FW from here:
https:/
put it in /lib/firmware, reboot and check that it is loaded and verify if wifi is working now? And please attached the kernel log from that boot/run.