Wednesday, July 20, 2016

failed with error -2 iwlwifi drivers


Installed a new kernel.

Started facing issues with intel wireless drivers iwlwifi with new kernel booted.

Errors are as below:
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[ 2149.026974] Intel(R) Wireless WiFi driver for Linux
[ 2149.026976] Copyright(c) 2003- 2015 Intel Corporation
[ 2149.027291] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode failed with error -2
[ 2149.027298] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-7260-16.ucode failed with error -2
[ 2149.027303] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-7260-15.ucode failed with error -2
[ 2149.027308] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-7260-14.ucode failed with error -2
[ 2149.027313] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-7260-13.ucode failed with error -2
[ 2149.027314] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-7260-13.ucode' failed.
[ 2149.027316] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: no suitable firmware found!
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After some googling (some people use the word RnD ;), what an abuse ) ,figured out that one need to install firmware package separately.

So,
# dnf install    iwl7260-firmware.noarch -y

and it fixed the issue :)