On 11/05/2024 10:09, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 11:18 AM Max Nikulin wrote:I am not trying to dispute your suggestion, I had a hope to get a data point with a success story.In 2006 I was doing sysadmin work for the Nuclear Energy Institute. NEI performed a hardware refresh, and supplied ~50 employees with new Dell laptops. I don't recall the model, but they had integrated Intel wifi. The laptops would connect via wifi, and disconnect after about 10 minutes. Dell support told us we needed to update the BiOS or UEFI. It fixed the problem.
So the data point is unrelated to 72.daa05125.0 cc-a0-72.ucode or to some other recent intel wifi card. It was my fault that I was not clear enough asking for details.
I think, 2 decades ago balance between platform firmware and per-device firmware loaded by drivers was different. A few years ago I have seen recommendations of intel wifi cards as reliable ones.
In bookworm, driver spits a warning that it can not find a firmware file. Actually it is not available and it is impossible to just download the "missed" file. It is intended for debugging and one has to request it and then has to send gathered data to intel developers. It is discouraging from my point of view.
