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Comment 3 for bug 1398458

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: kernel fails to load iwlwifi firmware

We ship /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode in linux-firmware, which is also what the module advertises:

$ modinfo iwlwifi|grep 6000
firmware: iwlwifi-6000g2b-6.ucode
firmware: iwlwifi-6000g2a-5.ucode
firmware: iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode

This is what udev's userspace helper is looking at, so that finds the file just fine.

The interesting question here is why the kernel wants to load requests iwlwifi-6000-5.ucode. I. e. where does the -5 come from? It seems the in-kernel loader and the "firmware:" module field are doing something different?