[RESPONDED] Latest Intel firmware breaks AX210 WiFi on OpenSUSE and possibly other distributions

Framework Laptop 13 Linux
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On my Framework 13 11th Gen system, today I rebooted which caused all my recent zypper dup runs to take effect on my OpenSUSE Tumbleweed system. When the system came back up I found that my wifi was broken (plugged into ethernet via a USB-C dock and verified that it was just wifi).

Did some searching and found the following forum thread from a few days ago:

Which references an OpenSUSE bug report:
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1226544

Which references a fix that is pending review:

The bottom line is that the latest OpenSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot ships a version of kernel-firmeware-iwlwifi that is incompatible with the kernel it ships. In the forum post there is a workaround which will get you back up and running. You have to uninstall the firmware package, manually download the previous version of the firmware RPM and install it, lock it so that zypper doesn’t upgrade it, and then unlock it when the new package is eventually released (hopefully pretty soon).

Hopefully this is useful to someone out there.

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Hi @Brian_Cohen , welcome back.

Thanks for tracking this on Opensuse and thanks for sharing your workaround.

cheers! :slight_smile:

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@Loell_Framework while I would love to take credit for the workaround, all credit goes to the helpful folks on on the OpenSUSE forums and bug tracker who provided easy to follow instructions. Now hopefully they get this fixed soon – a rare moment of instability for Tumbleweed!

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The issue is now resolved. If you locked the kernel-firmeware-iwlwifi package, unlock it and run a zypper dup to the 20240625 snapshot and all will be well.