Bug#1130097: firmware-iwlwifi: intel-ibt-0040-2120.sfi is symlinked to wrong file

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From	René Seindal <rene@seindal.dk>
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Subject	Bug#1130097: firmware-iwlwifi: intel-ibt-0040-2120.sfi is symlinked to wrong file
Date	Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:50:01 +0100
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Package: firmware-iwlwifi
Version: 20251111-1~bpo13+1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,
    I have a Starlabs Systems tablet, the StarLite mkV, with a N200 chipset.

Bluetooth has been unable to discover BLE devices for quite some time.
I believed it to be a kernel issue, and waited for an update.

The problem has appeared with several devices, for example a Logitech
Pebble M350s mouse.

Then I noticed this.

The firmware-iwlwifi package generates these symlinks in 
/lib/firmware/intel:

ibt-0040-2120.ddc -> ibt-0040-0041.ddc
ibt-0040-2120.sfi -> ibt-0040-1020.sfi

The second is wrong. It should be:

ibt-0040-2120.sfi -> ibt-0040-0041.sfi

Once I correct the symlink and reboot the tablet, the bluetooth
devices are discoved and paired without any problems.

I'm currently using firmware-iwlwifi/trixie-backports, but I've tried
with packages from stable and unstable, which are the same.

Thank you for everything you do for Debian.

René

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.3
   APT prefers stable-security
   APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 
'experimental'), (1, 'unstable'), (1, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.19.6+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=da_DK.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

firmware-iwlwifi depends on no packages.

firmware-iwlwifi recommends no packages.

Versions of packages firmware-iwlwifi suggests:
ii  initramfs-tools  0.148.3

-- no debconf information

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