iwl8000 driver in Fedora 24

[Dusty Mabe]

I have the Lenovo T460s with the Intel Wireless AC 8260 chip in it.
According to the page at [1], that chip is supported by the
iwlwifi-8000 firmware. I don't see that package as an option in the
Fedora 24 repos [2]. The newest I see is the 7260. Googling around
hasn't led me to a solution. Anybody else having this same problem?

Thanks,
Dusty

[1] http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/network-and-i-o/wireless-networking/000005511.html
[2] http://mirrors.rit.edu/fedora/fedora/linux/updates/24/x86_64/i/

[Chris Adams]

Post by Dusty Mabe
I have the Lenovo T460s with the Intel Wireless AC 8260 chip in it.

The 8000C firmware files for the 8260 chip are in the iwl7260-firmware
package. I have a couple of systems with this chip and it works fine
for me.

[Josh Boyer]

Post by Dusty Mabe
I have the Lenovo T460s with the Intel Wireless AC 8260 chip in it.
According to the page at [1], that chip is supported by the
iwlwifi-8000 firmware. I don't see that package as an option in the
Fedora 24 repos [2]. The newest I see is the 7260. Googling around
hasn't led me to a solution. Anybody else having this same problem?

[***@x1 ~]$ rpm -ql iwl7260-firmware | grep 8000
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-8000C-13.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-8000C-16.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-8000C-21.ucode

It's packaged in the iwl7260-firmware package.

josh

[Dusty Mabe]

Post by Josh Boyer

Post by Dusty Mabe
I have the Lenovo T460s with the Intel Wireless AC 8260 chip in it.
According to the page at [1], that chip is supported by the
iwlwifi-8000 firmware. I don't see that package as an option in the
Fedora 24 repos [2]. The newest I see is the 7260. Googling around
hasn't led me to a solution. Anybody else having this same problem?

/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-8000C-13.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-8000C-16.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-8000C-21.ucode
It's packaged in the iwl7260-firmware package.

Thanks for the info. Could we have the info for the package updated to
indicate that?

[***@media ~]$ sudo dnf repoquery -i iwl7260-firmware
Last metadata expiration check: 2:39:18 ago on Fri Jul 22 07:17:27 2016.
Name : iwl7260-firmware
Version : 25.30.13.0
Release : 65.fc24
Architecture: noarch
Size : 3192506
License : Redistributable, no modification permitted
Source RPM : linux-firmware-20160526-65.git80d463be.fc24.src.rpm
Build Date : 2016-05-26 12:56
Packager : Fedora Project
URL : http://www.kernel.org/
Summary : Firmware for Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 7260 Series Adapters
Description :
This package contains the firmware required by the Intel wireless drivers
for Linux. Usage of the firmware is subject to the terms and conditions
contained inside the provided LICENSE file. Please read it carefully.


From the description/summary it seems that packaged is pretty focused
and doesn't indicate it would work for anything else.

If it would have read (and supports 8260) then I would have installed
and use that from the beginning.

Thanks again,
Dusty

[Josh Boyer]

Post by Dusty Mabe

Post by Josh Boyer

Post by Dusty Mabe
I have the Lenovo T460s with the Intel Wireless AC 8260 chip in it.
According to the page at [1], that chip is supported by the
iwlwifi-8000 firmware. I don't see that package as an option in the
Fedora 24 repos [2]. The newest I see is the 7260. Googling around
hasn't led me to a solution. Anybody else having this same problem?

/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-8000C-13.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-8000C-16.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-8000C-21.ucode
It's packaged in the iwl7260-firmware package.

Thanks for the info. Could we have the info for the package updated to
indicate that?

<snip?>

Post by Dusty Mabe
From the description/summary it seems that packaged is pretty focused
and doesn't indicate it would work for anything else.
If it would have read (and supports 8260) then I would have installed
and use that from the beginning.

Seems like a good suggestion. Care to send a patch?

FWIW, packaging the iwl firmware as split out subpackages has proven
to be a royal pain.

josh

[Dusty Mabe]

Post by Josh Boyer

Post by Dusty Mabe

Post by Josh Boyer

Post by Dusty Mabe
I have the Lenovo T460s with the Intel Wireless AC 8260 chip in it.
According to the page at [1], that chip is supported by the
iwlwifi-8000 firmware. I don't see that package as an option in the
Fedora 24 repos [2]. The newest I see is the 7260. Googling around
hasn't led me to a solution. Anybody else having this same problem?

/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-8000C-13.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-8000C-16.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-8000C-21.ucode
It's packaged in the iwl7260-firmware package.

Thanks for the info. Could we have the info for the package updated to
indicate that?

<snip?>

Post by Dusty Mabe
From the description/summary it seems that packaged is pretty focused
and doesn't indicate it would work for anything else.
If it would have read (and supports 8260) then I would have installed
and use that from the beginning.

Seems like a good suggestion. Care to send a patch?

I'll look into it. Hopefully I'll have something by the end of today.

Post by Josh Boyer
FWIW, packaging the iwl firmware as split out subpackages has proven
to be a royal pain.
josh
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