iwlwifi status

[Zeitlinie]

if this is off-topic, please discard - or hopefully suggest other
support channels.

The iwlwifi driver on openSUSE 13.1 causes severe issues with dual band
intel AC 7260 wifi cards with integrated bluetooth. This is getting an
inevitable hw component of many recent subnotebooks.

I experience frequent and random drops of connection as well as loss of
signal strength whenever I enable and use bluetooth together with wifi
both running in the 2.4GHz band. If I disable bluetooth in the BIOS
setup or use 5GHz wifi then the connection seems stable. (Many kind-of
similar issue are reported by other users of linux+AC7260 on the net.)

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi directs users with
iwlwifi driver issues to the vanilla kernel's bugzilla at
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/. Unfortunately however, support/info on that
list was limited to the statement that openSUSE's 13.1 kernel (uname -r
3.11.10-11-desktop for me) is '..very old..' and should be updated
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78271#c1

Is there any hope that openSUSE 13.1, within its life cycle, will see
kernel/driver/firmware updates such as to support Intel Dual Band
Wireless-AC 7260 cards properly?

[Takashi Iwai]

At Sun, 22 Jun 2014 19:26:39 +0200,

Post by Zeitlinie
if this is off-topic, please discard - or hopefully suggest other
support channels.
The iwlwifi driver on openSUSE 13.1 causes severe issues with dual band
intel AC 7260 wifi cards with integrated bluetooth. This is getting an
inevitable hw component of many recent subnotebooks.
I experience frequent and random drops of connection as well as loss of
signal strength whenever I enable and use bluetooth together with wifi
both running in the 2.4GHz band. If I disable bluetooth in the BIOS
setup or use 5GHz wifi then the connection seems stable. (Many kind-of
similar issue are reported by other users of linux+AC7260 on the net.)
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi directs users with
iwlwifi driver issues to the vanilla kernel's bugzilla at
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/. Unfortunately however, support/info on that
list was limited to the statement that openSUSE's 13.1 kernel (uname -r
3.11.10-11-desktop for me) is '..very old..' and should be updated
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78271#c1
Is there any hope that openSUSE 13.1, within its life cycle, will see
kernel/driver/firmware updates such as to support Intel Dual Band
Wireless-AC 7260 cards properly?

You can just try the kernel packages (both kernel-$FLAVOR and
kernel-firmware packages) in OBS Kernel:stable.


Takashi