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iwlwifi driver cant load firmware iwlwifi-5000 since kernel 6.18. |
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[Fedora] Fedora
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edpil02 |
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Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint> |
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Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
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medium
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acaringi, adscvr, airlied, hans, hpa, josef, kernel-maint, linville, lukasz.wojnilowicz, masami256, mchehab, ptalbert, steved, suraj.ghimire7
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iwlwifi driver can't load firmware since kernel-6.18 I have the issue with 6.18-rc2 and 6.18-rc3. Downgrade to kernel 6.17 solves the problem. uname -a Linux tuxmachine 6.18.0-0.rc3.30.fc44.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon Oct 27 16:02:15 UTC 2025 x86_64 GNU/Linux installed firmware : iwlwifi-dvm-firmware.noarch 20251021-1.fc44 rawhide lspci -l 06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300 Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 1001 Kernel modules: iwlwifi dmesg | grep iwlwifi [ 4.908485] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) [ 4.908699] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have ASPM control [ 4.911798] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: Detected crf-id 0xa5a5a5a1, cnv-id 0xa5a5a5a1 wfpm id 0xa5a5a5a1 [ 4.911808] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: PCI dev 4235/1001, rev=0x24, rfid=0xd55555d5 [ 4.911811] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300 AGN [ 4.919328] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: Driver unable to support your firmware API. Driver supports FW core 4294967294..2, firmware is 2. [ 4.919359] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-5000-4.ucode failed with error -2 [ 4.919372] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-5000-3.ucode failed with error -2 [ 4.919382] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode failed with error -2 [ 4.919393] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode failed with error -2 [ 4.919394] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: no suitable firmware found! [ 4.919395] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: minimum version required: iwlwifi-5000-1 [ 4.919395] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: maximum version supported: iwlwifi-5000-5 [ 4.919396] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: check git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git Reproducible: Always