Leap 16 and Firmware Updates

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Is there a way to use newer Firmware drivers in Leap 16.0 ?

A new Redmi Pro Laptop with Intel Ultra 5 - 225H chip set is failing with missing WiFi and Sound Card drivers. Is there a way, and how, to make them available for Leap 16 kernel version 6.12.

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Post:
/sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -EiA3 'net|audio'
or
inxi -F

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Thank you for your quick response.

While I was able to solve the audio issue, the WiFi remains open.

a) Audio
Solved with: zypper install sof-firmware

which the installer must have missed leaving ‘sof-firmware’ uninstalled.

b) WiFi
the installed Intel driver in kernel 6.12 seams to be to old for the WiFi hardware

From the kernel log’s error messages, I was able to narrow down the drivers:

Jan 08 15:57:42 xu5.lan kernel: intel_pmc_core INT33A1:00: pmc_core: couldn’t get DMU telem endpoint -6
Jan 08 15:57:42 xu5.lan kernel: iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: no suitable firmware found!
Jan 08 15:57:42 xu5.lan kernel: iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: minimum version required: iwlwifi-bz-b0-hr-b0-90
Jan 08 15:57:42 xu5.lan kernel: iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: maximum version supported: iwlwifi-bz-b0-hr-b0-93
Jan 08 15:57:42 xu5.lan kernel: iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: check git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git
Jan 08 15:57:43 xu5.lan kernel: sof-audio-pci-intel-mtl 0000:00:1f.3: SOF firmware and/or topology file not found.

lspci -nnk | grep ‘net’
00:14.3 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:7740]
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0274]
Kernel modules: iwlwifi

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This one is in the kernel:

stephan@linux64:~> uname -a && /sbin/modprobe -c | grep -i "8086.*7740"
Linux linux64 6.12.0-160000.8-default #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Dec 11 09:18:13 UTC 2025 (5d31a95) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
alias pci:v00008086d00007740sv*sd*bc*sc*i* iwlwifi
stephan@linux64:~>

So maybe you require newer Firmware?

stephan@linux64:~> rpm -q --whatprovides /lib/firmware/intel/iwlwifi/iwlwifi-bz-b0-hr-b0-93.ucode.xz
kernel-firmware-iwlwifi-20251217-lp160.1.1.noarch
stephan@linux64:~>

I use the firmware from here:
https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/firmware/16.0/noarch/kernel-firmware-iwlwifi-20251217-lp160.1.1.noarch.rpm

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Issue solved.

Although ‘zypper’ complained about missing keys during the install process.

Stephan, many thanks for your great help. And you have open up for me the world of the underlying rpm layer, normally hidden by ‘zypper’.

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