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Bug#843936: Need newer iwlwifi firmware for Linux 4.9-rc kernels

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On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 04:11:01AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Control: tag -1 upstream
> 
> On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 14:24:54 -0800 Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> > Package: firmware-iwlwifi
> > Version: 20160824-1
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > The iwlwifi driver in Linux 4.9-rc kernels and newer, as packaged in
> > experimental, no longer supports the versions of the 7265D firmware (and
> > likely others) packaged in firmware-iwlwifi.
> 
> This is not correct; the minimum version is 17.

The version of the 4.9-rc kernel package I had installed at the time I
reported this issue stopped probing for firmware before reaching any
firmware version that firmware-iwlwifi shipped; as a result, it failed
to find any firmware, and refused to use wifi.  It looks like the source
of that version also declared the minimum version as 17, but
nonetheless, it stopped well before finding its firmware.

However, the current 4.9-rc5 kernel package in experimental no longer
seems to have this issue, and I can't seem to track down enough version
information about the packages at the time to reproduce the problem.
So, feel free to close this bug.

- Josh Triplett

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Bug#843936: Need newer iwlwifi firmware for Linux 4.9-rc kernels Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2016-11-10 23:30 +0100
  Bug#843936: Need newer iwlwifi firmware for Linux 4.9-rc kernels Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-12-03 05:20 +0100
    Bug#843936: Need newer iwlwifi firmware for Linux 4.9-rc kernels Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2016-12-03 06:00 +0100
  Processed: Re: Need newer iwlwifi firmware for Linux 4.9-rc kernels owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) - 2016-12-03 05:20 +0100
  Bug#843936: marked as done (Need newer iwlwifi firmware for Linux  4.9-rc kernels) owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) - 2017-06-06 01:00 +0200

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