How 2 cleaner iwlwifi dmesg? [Solved]

CaptainBlood · Advocate Joined: 24 Jan 2010 Posts: 3712

Hi dear all,

System works fine despite dmesg outputs as follows:

John R. Graham · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 10:06 am Post subject:

Have you tried something radical like maybe making the firmware that the driver is requesting available? I see that the version in Portage is what you're loading but the dmesg messages give you all the hints you need to download the requested version.

- John
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CaptainBlood · Advocate Joined: 24 Jan 2010 Posts: 3712

Thanks for the tip ...

which I've applied by: un-emerging former driver, installing new (but older version) then rebooted.
Now dmesg outputs as follows:

John R. Graham · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 12:53 pm Post subject:

Just looked and the file "iwlwifi-5000-ucode-8.83.5.1-1.tgz", downloadable from the stated web site does indeed contain the file "iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode". Now, what this also means is that the net-wireless/iwl5000-ucode package in Portage is out of date. Perhaps you should file a bug asking for it to be bumped.

- John
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CaptainBlood · Advocate Joined: 24 Jan 2010 Posts: 3712

Well, stated site was almost unreachable for the last hours ... :evil:

But I finally made it.

Indeed a iwlwifi-5000-ucode-8.83.5.1-1.tgz is downloadable there.

I mainly contains a .ucode file which I placed in /lib/firmware. :wink:

At next reboot dmesg doesn't complaint anymore.

And the µcode is newer indeed. Didn't check masked iwl5000-ucode in this regard though.

Despite the issue is technically cleared, one question remains:
What is the benefit of having iwl-5000 µcode loaded the way the use of the portage package implies?

i.e. why does it place a 'starter' version of ucode in /lib/firmware despite a newer package seems loaded in the end?

I feel lazy about filling a bug report for something that isn't really one. It would be more a request for some internal explanation, and I already got shooted down for doing so on another subject. So ...

Thanks for your attention, interest and support.

John R. Graham · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 5:54 pm Post subject:

Whoops. My bad. The net-wireless/iwl5000-ucode-8.83.5.1 package is already in portage in the testing branch. The most Gentooish way to solve this problem is to unmask that and emerge that. No bug is warranted.

- John
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CaptainBlood · Advocate Joined: 24 Jan 2010 Posts: 3712

Silly me as well.

I realised I got confused between the package name, the installed package name, and the µcode version declared in dmesg. :twisted:

My apologise for making so much noise about so little.

Guess it's time to revert to classical Gentooish update and close the subject. :lol:

Thanks for your attention, interest and support.