Wifi Not working after DU today

[bad_aptitude]

I did a distribution upgrade today and everything looked good. However on rebooting my wifi is not finding any networks.
Falling back to previous kernel restores my wifi capability.
Should I just wait for a future upgrade to fix this?

[Pip]

I've done a full upgrade and have linux-image-6.11.3-1-siduction-amd64 installed. I didn't have any problem connecting to the network through WiFi. You might need to dig a little deeper to pull out any errors that turn up when you boot into the newest kernel as it doesn't seem like there's a generic problem. Which card you have, whether there were any problems building the modules, errors in dmesg or journalctl, that sort of thing.

[bad_aptitude]

dmesg  | grep "wifi" gave me the following

[    3.367288] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Detected crf-id 0x2816, cnv-id 0x2000300 wfpm id 0x80000000
[    3.367308] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: PCI dev 34f0/0234, rev=0x332, rfid=0x105110
[    3.367312] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Detected Intel(R) Wireless-AC 9560
[    3.368280] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-Qu-c0-jf-b0-77.ucode (-2)
[    3.368284] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-Qu-c0-jf-b0-77.ucode failed with error -2
[    3.368288] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: no suitable firmware found!
[    3.416921] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: iwlwifi-Qu-c0-jf-b0-77 is required
[    3.416925] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: check git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git

So it seems I need firmware which isn't in the repository.
Not sure if I should install the new firmware or just wait for it to show up.

[dibl]

If your wifi works with the previous kernel, then you must have the Intel firmware installed. Try

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$ stat /usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-Qu-c0-jf-b0-77.ucode

Here, it shows

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$ stat /usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-Qu-c0-jf-b0-77.ucode
  File: /usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-Qu-c0-jf-b0-77.ucode
  Size: 1322700         Blocks: 2584       IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 8,4     Inode: 267558      Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2024-10-08 05:42:01.000000000 -0400
Modify: 2024-10-07 17:52:47.000000000 -0400
Change: 2024-10-08 05:42:10.185984519 -0400
Birth: 2024-10-08 05:42:09.275984494 -0400


[michaa7]

...
So it seems I need firmware which isn't in the repository.
...

What? It's available for sure.

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apt policy firmware-iwlwifi
firmware-iwlwifi:
  Installiert:           20240909-1
  Installationskandidat: 20240909-1


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...
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-Qu-c0-jf-b0-77.ucode
...
https://packages.debian.org/de/sid/all/firmware-iwlwifi/filelist

[bad_aptitude]

Here are the results of your suggested probes.

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stat /usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-Qu-c0-jf-b0-77.ucode

stat: cannot statx '/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-Qu-c0-jf-b0-77.ucode': No such file or directory


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apt policy firmware-iwlwifi
firmware-iwlwifi:
  Installed: 20230210-5
  Candidate: 20230210-5
  Version table:
*** 20230210-5 500
        500 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/non-free-firmware amd64 Packages
        500 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/non-free-firmware i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


[towo]

Will you kidding us?
siduction is debian unstable, not bookworm.

[bad_aptitude]

@Towo.

No I'm not kidding. I don't know what "bookworm" is.
I'm thinking my apt configuration may be corrupted.

Could this be malware?

[bad_aptitude]

Sorry.
I forgot bookworm was the Debian version.
I guess I need to review my sources.

[eriefisher]

Your sources should all be unstable not bookworm or Trixie unless you enabled another source for a specific package but then you should disable it.

[bad_aptitude]

I found the following source in my debian.list  :   
        deb       https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main non-free-firmwar

I commented out this line and performed a dist upgrade. This did not update the wifi firmware
I ran

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apt install firmware-linux-nonfree
firmware-linux-nonfree is already the newest version (20230210-5).
firmware-linux-nonfree set to manually installed.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libgit2-1.7        libjim0.82t64  libllvm18       linux-headers-6.10.7-1-siduction-amd64  linux-image-6.10.7-1-siduction-amd64
  libhttp-parser2.9  liblept5       libllvm18:i386  linux-headers-6.11.2-1-siduction-amd64  linux-image-6.11.2-1-siduction-amd64
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.

Summary:
  Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 3

But it said the firmware was up to date.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[michaa7]

Do you have any debian unstable repo activated?
Did You "apt update" after disabeling the bookwor repo and enabeling which unstable repo and befor trying to dist-upgrade?

There has to be a line like:

"deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free non-free-firmware"


show your sources.list
show sources.list.d/*

[bad_aptitude]

I did apt update after disabling the bookworm source.

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ls sources.list.d/*
sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list  sources.list.d/debian.list  sources.list.d/fixes.list
sources.list.d/dbgsym.list                 sources.list.d/extra.list   sources.list.d/protonvpn-beta.list


brave-browser does have a source from "stable"

I do not have the line "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free non-free-firmware" in my sources.

Should I add this source to debian.list?

[eriefisher]

Yes add the line shown above them apt update and apt dist-upgrade.

[bad_aptitude]

I added  "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free non-free-firmware" to debian.list.
apt update gave the following:

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Warning: Target Packages (main/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list:2 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list:11
Warning: Target Packages (main/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list:2 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list:11
Warning: Target Packages (main/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list:2 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list:11
Warning: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en_CA) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list:2 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list:11
Warning: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list:2 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list:11
Warning: Target DEP-11 (main/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list:2 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list:11
Warning: Target DEP-11 (main/dep11/Components-all.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list:2 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list:11
Warning: Target DEP-11-icons-small (main/dep11/icons-48x48.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list:2 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list:11
Warning: Target DEP-11-icons (main/dep11/icons-64x64.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list:2 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list:11
Warning: Target DEP-11-icons-hidpi (main/d

The output of apt update was much longer so I truncated for brevity.

I wonder if I can ignore these warnings ... recognising there are no guarantees!