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4.673695] Intel(R) Wireless WiFi driver for Linux
[ 4.673696] Copyright(c) 2003- 2015 Intel Corporation
[ 4.673798] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[ 4.677583] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[ 4.680522] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-7265D-26.ucode failed with error -2
[ 4.680562] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-7265D-25.ucode failed with error -2
[ 4.680575] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-7265D-24.ucode failed with error -2
[ 4.680588] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-7265D-23.ucode failed with error -2
[ 4.684000] SSE version of gcm_enc/dec engaged.
[ 4.689510] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: loaded firmware version 22.391740.0 op_mode iwlmvm
Further exploration showed that the appropriate drivers, iwlwifi-7265-14/iwlwifi-7265D-14, were not installed on my machine. I have downloaded and copied the correct drivers into /lib/firmware. However, as shown in the dmseg output, at boot, later versions of the driver are sought (none of which are not available).
Basic question: is there a way to configure the machine to look for and load the correct driver as it is now available?
A possible further complication may be kernel related as there are only two versions of the iwlwifi-7265 microcode listed:
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$ modinfo iwlwifi
filename: /lib/modules/4.9.56-desktop-1.mga6/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/i
ntel/iwlwifi/iwlwifi.ko.xz
license: GPL
author: Copyright(c) 2003- 2015 Intel Corporation <linuxwifi@intel.com>
description: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi driver for Linux
**SNIP**
firmware: iwlwifi-7265D-26.ucode
firmware: iwlwifi-7265-17.ucode
Does this suggest a kernel issue (perhaps similar to the now resolved: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21081)? If so, I will file a bug report.
Final questions: MCC offers the possibility of configuring a connection to use ndswrapper. I assume that using the Intel driver would be better, but is that a possible solution? Will that make ndswrapper the default for all wifi connections?