Comment 10 for bug 1947829

The changes made to linux-firmware 1.201.1 on impish has destablized use of a Gigabyte GC-WB867D-I REV Bluetooth 4.0/Wireless AC/B/G/N Band Dual Frequency 2.4Ghz/5.8Ghz Expansion Card. Under the new linux-firmware 1.201.1, no wifi is available under Gnome in about 80-90% of the boots. Under the prior linux-firmware 1.201 release, the wifi always appears under Gnome. Below are the differences in syslog for the broken linux-firmware 1.201.1 release...

Nov 3 04:27:07 home kernel: [ 13.045691] iwlwifi 0000:4d:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
Nov 3 04:27:07 home kernel: [ 13.055795] iwlwifi 0000:4d:00.0: loaded firmware version 36.ca7b901d.0 8265-36.ucode op_mode iwlmvm
Nov 3 04:27:07 home kernel: [ 13.112172] iwlwifi 0000:4d:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless AC 8265, REV=0x230

versus the stable linux-firmware 1.201 release...
Nov 3 04:36:53 home kernel: [ 14.482126] iwlwifi 0000:4d:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
Nov 3 04:36:53 home kernel: [ 14.492179] iwlwifi 0000:4d:00.0: loaded firmware version 36.ca7b901d.0 8265-36.ucode op_mode iwlmvm
Nov 3 04:36:53 home kernel: [ 14.548114] iwlwifi 0000:4d:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless AC 8265, REV=0x230
Nov 3 04:36:53 home kernel: [ 14.606163] iwlwifi 0000:4d:00.0: base HW address: 00:28:f8:f9:16:e0
Nov 3 04:36:53 home kernel: [ 14.722166] iwlwifi 0000:4d:00.0 wlp77s0: renamed from wlan0