On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 4:22 PM Roger Koehler <roger.o.koeh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 3:21 PM Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev > <blfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > > > > Requesting help. > > > > I'm rebuilding my laptop with latest development lfs/blfs and am having > > some kernel 4.19.8 issues. > > > > My laptop has both wired and wireless network interfaces. The wired > > interface is fine but the wireless interface is not being recognized. > > > > For kernel 4.13.8, everything is fine. The firmware related kernel > > options are: > > > > CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y > > CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y > > CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="intel/ibt-hw-37.7.10-fw-1.80.2.3.d.bseq > > iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode" > > CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="firmware" > > CONFIG_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP=y > > > > and dmesg gives: > > > > [ 1.516228] Bluetooth: hci0: Intel Bluetooth firmware file: > > intel/ibt-hw-37.7.10-fw-1.80.2.3.d.bseq > > [ 1.734116] Bluetooth: hci0: Intel Bluetooth firmware patch completed > > and activated > > [ 5.077436] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: loaded firmware version 17.459231.0 > > op_mode iwlmvm > > > > For 4.19.8 I have: > > > > CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y > > CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="intel/ibt-hw-37.7.10-fw-1.80.2.3.d.bseq > > iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode" > > CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="firmware" > > CONFIG_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP=y > > > > There is no CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL option for this kernel version. > > > > dmesg now gives only: > > > > [ 0.316853] platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for > > regulatory.db failed with error -2 > > > > There are some things I found about something called regdb, but that > > doesn't explain to me why the firmware isn't loading. > > > > Any ideas? > > I'm not much help, but I thought I would chime in and let you know > that I was having similar issues, so I built LFS 8.0 and BLFS 8.0 so > that I could use the longest running stable kernel (currently > 4.9.146).
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