I was getting very long connection time, random connection losses... very slow data rate : well, the wifi was barely usable
I didn't tried to downgrade the linux-firmware package version but I did something else.
I use TLP as power management tool. I was able to get back the usual behavior after disabling the WIFI power management option in /etc/defaults/tlp
This may not be the best solution from battery duration perspective but the wifi is back
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06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev 6b)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 35
Memory at f7900000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
Kernel modules: iwlwifi
I managed to narrow the problem down to
linux-firmware-20141201.38e5405-1
. This was the version picked up by the update. After downgrading to
linux-firmware-20141009.0e5f637-1
, the problem disappeared.
I don't know if anybody else had this kind of problem, but just wanted to post in case somebody runs into it. I'm running HP laptop with intel wireless controller. This is the relevant lspci output:
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev 73)
DeviceName: WLAN
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless-N 7260
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 51
Memory at d0600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
Kernel modules: iwlwifi
If any more info is needed, please let me know
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