[OpenWrt-Devel] Issues with Intel Wifi 7260 AC

[Carlos Ferreira]

Ok! Thanks for the info.
I will run some tests with a new OpenWRT build for x86_64, with only the
minimum required modules to see what happens.

On 2 December 2015 at 16:15, Dirk Neukirchen <dirkneukirchen at web.de> wrote:

> On 30.11.2015 19:35, Carlos Ferreira wrote:
> >  Direct firmware load for
> > iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode failed with error -2
>
> Originally IWLWIFI versions depend on Kernel versions.see[3]
>
> Since we use a separate mac80211 we should not care about kernel
> version - since we use "development"/newest drivers
>
> iwlwifi seems to expect newer firmware too.
> - rev. 17 does not seem to be published yet.
> - rev. 16 (iwlwifi-7260-16.ucode) is available in linux-firmware[1]
> - rev 14,15 are not in mainline linux-firmware but in other repos[2]
>
> Older Firmware is supposed to work with newer drivers according
> to iwlwifi documentation[3] - Kernel 3.10+ means that this should
> work with later versions too
>
> iwlwifi is a little bit untested on OpenWrt because AP/5GHz issue
> on cards. So maybe its a bug with firmware or code itself and
> you could report it to the wireless/iwlwifi kernel guys.
> See wireless kernel wiki page[4]
>
> [1]
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/
> [2]
> https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/linux-firmware/
> https://github.com/OpenELEC/iwlwifi-firmware/tree/master/firmware
> [3]https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi
> [4]https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi/debugging
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