FS#59434 - Wifi not working without wireless-regdb

Attached to Project: Release Engineering
Opened by Victor Roest (NULLx76) - Tuesday, 24 July 2018, 14:00 GMT
Last edited by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Wednesday, 01 August 2018, 04:06 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category ArchISO
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

When using the live iso, archlinux cant load/find/use the network card unless wireless-regdb is installed with specific chipset(s?)

The chipset on which this error occurs is (according to lspci): Intel Corporation Wireless-AC 9560 [Jefferson Peak] (rev 10)

This error is shown in dmesg when wireless-regdb is not installed:
[ 13.955202] Intel(R) Wireless WiFi driver for Linux
[ 13.955915] Copyright(c) 2003- 2015 Intel Corporation
[ 14.003633] platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2
[ 14.004322] cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db

Maybe consider adding it to the ISO, so this error is fixed.
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Closed by  Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera)
Wednesday, 01 August 2018, 04:06 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Victor Roest (NULLx76) - Tuesday, 24 July 2018, 14:04 GMT
The workaround I used to get around this issue is blacklisting iwlwifi via kernel parameters then installing wireless-regdb via pacman then using 'modprobe iwlwifi' to activate it again
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Thursday, 26 July 2018, 20:12 GMT
Thanks. Done at https://git.archlinux.org/archiso.git/commit/?id=4f1b1330959effa5ecf16e7b65ee228f1a53b90e

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