Dell dock station WD22TB4 loses ether dev after reboot/power off

[You-Sheng Yang]

[SRU Justification]

[Impact]

Dell dock station WD22TB4 loses ether dev after reboot/power off.

[Fix]

Upstream firmware update commit e88bdbe4b5a9 ("rtl_nic: update firmware of USB
devices").

[Test Case]

1. Connect WD22TB4 with ethernet cable
2. Boot into OS
3. power off (or just reboot)
4. power on and check if ethernet connection is still available.

[Where problems could occur]

Opaque firmware update. No known issue found yet after the update.

[Other Info]

The proposed fix has been included in Mantic and Noble, so nominate only for
Lunar and Jammy (for oem-6.5).

========== original bug report ==========

[Steps to reproduce]
1. Connect WD22TB4 with ethernet
2. Boot into OS
3. poweroff (or just reboot)
4. poweron

[Fix]
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=e88bdbe4b5a98370e30f8b6cbbfebf09cd604b4d

[You-Sheng Yang (vicamo)]

SRU:
* https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2024-January/147983.html (jammy)
* https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2024-January/147984.html (lunar)

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Hello You-Sheng, or anyone else affected,

Accepted linux-firmware into lunar-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/20230323.gitbcdcfbcf-0ubuntu1.10 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-lunar to verification-done-lunar. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-lunar. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Hello You-Sheng, or anyone else affected,

Accepted linux-firmware into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/20220329.git681281e4-0ubuntu3.25 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-jammy to verification-done-jammy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-jammy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[You-Sheng Yang (vicamo)]

verified linux-firmware/jammy-proposed version 20220329.git681281e4-0ubuntu3.25, and linux-firmware/lunar-proposed version 20230323.gitbcdcfbcf-0ubuntu1.10.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster) has reached end of life, so this bug will not be fixed for that specific release.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Hello You-Sheng, or anyone else affected,

Accepted linux-firmware into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/20220329.git681281e4-0ubuntu3.26 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-jammy to verification-done-jammy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-jammy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux-firmware - 20220329.git681281e4-0ubuntu3.26

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linux-firmware (20220329.git681281e4-0ubuntu3.26) jammy; urgency=medium

  * Miscellaneous Ubuntu changes
    - [Workflow] Add initial gitea workflow files
    - SAUCE: [Workflow] check_whence.py: Update list of known files
  * Revert "WCN6856 Wi-FI Unavailable and no function during suspend stress (LP: #2048977)"
    - Revert "ath11k: WCN6855 hw2.0: update to WLAN.HSP.1.1-03125-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-3.6510.36"
    - Revert "ath11k: WCN6855 hw2.0: update board-2.bin"
    - Revert "ath11k: WCN6855 hw2.0: update board-2.bin"

linux-firmware (20220329.git681281e4-0ubuntu3.25) jammy; urgency=medium

  * Dell dock station WD22TB4 loses ether dev after reboot/power off (LP: #2048747)
    - rtl_nic: update firmware of USB devices
  * occasional wifi firmware loading failures: wiwlwifi: BE200: Failed to start RT ucode: -110 (LP: #2048853)
    - iwlwifi: add new FWs from core81-65 release
    - iwlwifi: add new FWs from core83-55 release
    - iwlwifi: fix for the new FWs from core83-55 release
    - iwlwifi: update gl FW for core80-165 release
  * WCN6856 Wi-FI Unavailable and no function during suspend stress (LP: #2048977)
    - ath11k: WCN6855 hw2.0: update board-2.bin
    - ath11k: WCN6855 hw2.0: update board-2.bin
    - ath11k: WCN6855 hw2.0: update to WLAN.HSP.1.1-03125-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-3.6510.36
  * Support Mediatek MT7925 WiFi/BT (LP: #2043542)
    - linux-firmware: add firmware for MT7925
    - linux-firmware: add firmware for mediatek bluetooth chip (MT7925)
  * upstream Intel VSC firmware paths moved to intel/vsc/ (LP: #2048991)
    - intel: vsc: Add firmware for Visual Sensing Controller
    - SAUCE: intel: vsc: use upstream binaries

 -- Juerg Haefliger <email address hidden> Tue, 30 Jan 2024 11:04:32 +0100

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for linux-firmware has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.