Hardware • Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 failure, iwlwifi-cc-a0-77 is required after apt upgrade, kernel upgrade 6.1.119-1

I discovered today that after a recent apt update && apt upgrade, my kernel was upgraded to 6.1.119-1 and upon boot, my WiFi chipset no longer functioned.

I then inspected dmesg and observed the following:

**[ 10.444259] iwlwifi 0000:05:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-cc-a0-77.ucode failed with error -2**
**[ 10.444263] iwlwifi 0000:05:00.0: no suitable firmware found!**
**[ 10.444277] iwlwifi 0000:05:00.0: iwlwifi-cc-a0-77 is required**
**[ 10.444290] iwlwifi 0000:05:00.0: check git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git**

non-free-firmware is already enabled in my sources list and the latest firmware-iwlwifi is already the newest version (20230210-5).

I then grabbed the required firmware from the git repo above and copied the file manually to /lib/firmware, then:
sudo modprobe -r iwlwifi
sudo modprobe iwlwifi

Question: is it possible to ensure the firmware-iwlwifi package in the repo includes the required firmware before releasing a kernel update in the stable branch? I don't foresee new users to Debian having to troubleshoot this on their own when they routinely perform sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

Statistics: Posted by augment — 2024-12-07 21:00

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