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Subject: Re: iwlwifi problems, maybe firmware related?
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
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        Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
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From:   Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Organization: Candela Technologies
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Date:   Tue, 25 Jan 2022 15:58:33 -0800
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On 1/25/22 3:08 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When I boot 5.16 or 5.17-rc1, I get messages like:
> 
> iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: api flags index 2 larger than supported by driver
> iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: TLV_FW_FSEQ_VERSION: FSEQ Version: 89.3.35.37
> iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: loaded firmware version 67.8f59b80b.0 QuZ-a0-hr-b0-67.ucode op_mode iwlmvm

We see nothing but crashes with the version 67 firmware.  Remove that
from your /lib/firmware/ dir (and make sure version 66 or lower is there),
and reboot and it should work again.

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com