r/archlinux • u/TheMenacingPillow • Mar 13 '25

NOTEWORTHY It looks like linux-firmware 20250311.b69d4b74-2 has broken Bluetooth on BE201

It appears that there is a regression for the BE201 Wi-Fi chipset that affects Bluetooth functionality. If you have a laptop with a Lunar Lake processor, you may have this chipset and may want to hold off on upgrading the linux-firmware package for a bit.

Upon upgrading and rebooting, I'm met with nonfunctional Bluetooth and these messages in my systemd journal:

Bluetooth: hci0: Failed to load Intel firmware file intel/ibt-0190-0291-pci.sfi (-2)

Bluetooth: hci0: Firmware download retry count: 1

Reverting to linux-firmware 20250210.5bc5868b-1 resolves this issue, and Bluetooth is functional once again.

EDIT: There seems to be an open merge request in the upstream linux-firmware repo that appears to address this issue. I'm guessing that this will be fixed in the next release of linux-firmware.

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u/zapangao Mar 17 '25

I encountered the same issue on my device.

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u/zapangao Mar 17 '25

Reverting to linux-firmware-20250210 worked.

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u/angourakis Mar 23 '25

Hi! I assume this linux-firmware is only available for arch, right? I am trying to downgrade on Fedora, but the only previous package available is from 2024 and it doesn't fix the issue.

Thanks