BIOS contains WGDS but no WRDS

Solution 1:

Found this message in a fresh Lubuntu 18.04.3 64 bit installation + latest updates (5.0.0-27-generic kernel). I can reproduce it doing:

sudo systemctl restart network-manager
cat /var/log/syslog | grep iwlwifi

The system works fine (include wifi connections).

It seems to be a not important warning. At https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=243922 it says:

after the fix is applied contains the output "BIOS contains WGDS but no WRDS"

Solution 2:

We've got the same problem, seems to be from the Kernal update 5.0.0-27 as stated from Bellera. It could also probably be a wpa_supplicant issue.

Our system seems to hold at that message for a few seconds on boot, which drives me insane. Hope it will get fixed in the next update.

Its suspected that this primarily happens on Windows dual boot systems. We have switched from Windows to Linux on this device yesterday, which means we can't fix this issue ourselfs.

But it has been reported that booting up Windows and disabling the WLan from there than shutdown and boot into Linux, there should be no message about this anymore.

Maybe this helps you. If somebody knows where to report this to get this seen by Linux Kernel people, that would be great because I really cant find my way around all these repos tbh.