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Subject: Re: iwlwifi problems, maybe firmware related?
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On 1/25/22 15:58, Ben Greear wrote:
> 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.

Well. Yes, that does make things work for me.

It's odd, though, that openSUSE Tumbleweed with kernel "Linux version 5.16.1-1-default"
(whatever that is) also works with no problems.

Thanks for your help.

-- 
~Randy