If you are staring at a wall of red text in your dmesg logs after a recent kernel update, you aren’t alone. The error message iwlwifi: firmware: failed to load iwl-debug-yoyo.bin (-2) looks like a critical system failure, but the truth is far less dramatic. What is "iwl-debug-yoyo.bin"? In short: it is a , not a functional driver.

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