Comment 32 for bug 1398458

(In reply to comment #25)
> So the main issue is indeed that we pass off to udev for loading - and there is
> a 60s timeout (per try)

Yes, indeed. That's the root cause. Your symptoms result from the fact, that the driver tries two firmwares, which were never released by intel.

I will disable to helper as we used to have the firmwares in the preset locations, so it should not cause problems to anybody even if the kernel is installed on older distros.