linux-firmware: iwlwifi: add firmware for 7260 / 3160 devices

Hello Tim, or anyone else affected,

Accepted linux-firmware into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/1.79.10 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

I tested the new firmware in saucy and trusty and didn't see any regressions. I wasn't seeing the issues which are said to be fixed by the new firmware so I can't comment on that aspect.

Forgot to mention that I only tested the 7260 firmware, I don't have any 3160 hw.

Tested the proposed update for precise with LBM for 3.12 and with the saucy LTS kernel. Works in both cases, except that the saucy LTS kernel supplies its own firmware which overrides the one from linux-firmware. Deleting the blob from the LTS kernel package gets the right copy, and it works as well as the old version did.

I also discovered that I actually do have a 3160 card, and that firmware is working fine for me as well.

Seth, is this newer 7260 firmware being applied to the Saucy kernel also?

This bug was fixed in the package linux-firmware - 1.79.10

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linux-firmware (1.79.10) precise; urgency=low

  * iwlwifi: add firmware for 7260 / 3160 devices
    Support for linux v3.10+
    -LP: #1265550
  * linux-firmware: Add Brocade FC/FCOE Adapter firmware files
    linux-firmware: 3.2.3.0 Firmware for Brocade Adapters
    Support for linux v3.10+
    -LP: #1265551
 -- Tim Gardner <email address hidden> Thu, 02 Jan 2014 08:23:19 -0700

Hello Tim, or anyone else affected,

Accepted linux-firmware into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/1.79.11 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

The firmware for this fix has been added to Precise linux-firmware.

The verification of the Stable Release Update for linux-firmware has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.