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Re: iwlwifi deblobbed


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: iwlwifi deblobbed
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 17:12:47 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux)

Hello!

"Olivier Farges" <address@hidden> skribis:

> I'm a newbie guixsd user and I feel pretty satisfied about it even if it took 
> me 2 days before I could get an azerty layout with xorg...
> My issue is with my wifi card (Intel 8260) which seems to me very common. I 
> don't have any wireless interface since iwlwifi module can't be loaded. With 
> dmesg I got :
>
> iwlwifi Couldn't request the fw
> iwlwifi Direct firmware load for /*(DEBLOBBED*/ failed with error -2
> iwlwifi probe of 0000:02:00.0 failed with error -22
>
> I read about DEBLOBBED in the archives but to be honest I haven't understand 
> anything : if there is a solution I'm afraid I'm not enough competent to find 
> it. Can anyone help me ?

The problem is as described here:

  https://gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Hardware-Considerations.html

There’s no free firmware for Intel’s WiFi devices.  My recommendation is
to get one of those cheap USB WiFi dongles that has an Atheros chipset.
The page above has more details.

HTH!

Ludo’.



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