firmware loading fails (iwl 7260)

Hi,

I have an X1 Carbon laptop with an intel 7260 chip.

The automatic firmware loading doesn't work (kernel 3.17.2). I get this in dmesg:

[    1.615155] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for

iwlwifi-7260-10.ucode failed with error -2

The firmware then gets loaded by the userspace helper, however as far as I understand it (and the description of the kernel option) this is deprecated and shouldn't be used. Also, it takes quite a while (minutes) till the wifi is available after boot which is quite annoying.

Any idea what I should do to debug/fix this? Is this a bug? (firmware is the latest from intel's page, 23.10.10.0)

cu,

Hanno Böck
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Most probably your rootfs is not yet mounted, when the driver attempts to load the firmware file.

As a workaround try to compile iwlwifi as a module. When rootfs is mounted, the module is loaded and the driver should pick up firmware.

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With best wishes,
Vladimir