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somecallmewren

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Registered: 2017-07-01

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[SOLVED] Kernel Upgrade Killed Thinkpad Wifi

After pacman -Syu, my thinkpad x230 doesn't see its wifi card.

dmesg | grep wifi

[   15.484709] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have ASPM control
[   15.491909] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: loading /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6000g2a-6.ucode failed with error -22
[   15.491912] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-6000g2a-6.ucode failed with error -22
[   15.492866] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: loading /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6000g2a-5.ucode failed with error -22
[   15.492869] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-6000g2a-5.ucode failed with error -22
[   15.492872] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: no suitable firmware found!
[   15.493507] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: minimum version required: iwlwifi-6000g2a-5
[   15.494135] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: maximum version supported: iwlwifi-6000g2a-6
[   15.495330] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: check git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git

I tried blacklisting thinkpad_acpi, no luck.

relevant part of lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net

00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection (Lewisville) [8086:1502] (rev 04)
        Subsystem: Lenovo 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection (Lewisville) [17aa:21f3]
        Kernel driver in use: e1000e
        Kernel modules: e1000e
--
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] [8086:0085] (rev 34)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 (802.11a/b/g/n) [8086:1311]
        Kernel modules: iwlwifi

ip l

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: enp0s25: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 3c:97:0e:b4:e9:61 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

rfkill

ID TYPE      DEVICE      SOFT      HARD
 0 bluetooth hci0   unblocked unblocked

Last edited by somecallmewren (2018-11-19 20:09:52)

ewaller

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Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: [SOLVED] Kernel Upgrade Killed Thinkpad Wifi

Ensure the version numbers reported by
uname -a
and
pacman -Q linux
are the same.

Last edited by ewaller (2018-11-19 19:59:09)

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loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Kernel Upgrade Killed Thinkpad Wifi

Welcome to the arch linux forums somecallmewren.  What is the output of

pacman -Qkk linux-firmware

somecallmewren

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Registered: 2017-07-01

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Re: [SOLVED] Kernel Upgrade Killed Thinkpad Wifi

Welcome to the arch linux forums somecallmewren.  What is the output of

pacman -Qkk linux-firmware

This was it. pacman -S linux-firmware --force fixed my problems.

Thanks for the help!

Last edited by somecallmewren (2018-11-19 20:10:40)