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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: linux-firmware (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  FW for Intel Wireless 7260 v8 missing

Status in “linux-firmware” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  On ubuntu 14.04 the linux-firmware package versions 1.127.3 (trusty-
  proposed) and 1.127.2 (trusty-security) don't contain

  /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-7260-8.ucode

  which is firmware version 22.15.8.0 [1] / 22.24.8.0 [2] for Intel
  Wireless-AC 7260 (on my Thinkpad E540 Haswell machine) needed for the
  current 3.13 kernel for the device to work properly (see Bug #1271257,
  which was previously fixed by adding this firmware ...)

  Even though the latest firmware version 23.214.9.0 was included in the
  latest package version (1.127.3) and this one should in theory run on
  3.13 it is not yet used by the driver since the appropriate patch [3]
  has not yet made it into the stable kernel according to [2].

  Update_0: I found out that version 8 was removed because it was seen
  as a regression by some users of the Intel Wireless-N/-AC 7260 (mainly
  Dell XPS 12/13 users, see Bug #1293569).

  Update_1: Bug #1325200 describes the same problem, but here I gathered
  and summarized all the needed information I think.

  [1] http://www.intel.com/support/wireless/wlan/sb/CS-034398.htm
  [2] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi
  [3] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=431031851ea72a25abb9ad4df56a0f3b997e3026

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