QCA6164 in Fedora

QCA6164 in Fedora

[Susi Lehtola]

Hello people,


I recently bought a Lenovo U31 laptop for work, and was surprised 
wireless didn't work out of the box.

Fortunately thanks to you the card (supposedly) works in linux, but I 
have yet to get mine to work.

I've patched the Fedora 4.1.6 kernel
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1069561&action=diff
to add support for the card, which I adapted from
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1436940

However, I'm having trouble loading the firmware. I took the firmware 
files from
 
https://github.com/atondwal/ath10k-firmware/commit/88fca85ef59d708b9874e5b7885416b58aef9ee7
and installed them into /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw2.1/, renaming 
firmare-5.bin to firmware-4.bin.

I also have added the necessary kernel option

$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/ath10k.conf
options ath10k_core skip_otp=y

After these changes, the kernel does detect the card, but it fails to 
load the firmware.

[10967.516277] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for 
ath10k/cal-pci-0000:03:00.0.bin failed with error -2
[10968.660851] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: firmware crashed! (uuid 
47cbe9a4-5fcd-41ae-b8ff-91e93702d083)
[10968.660862] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: qca6174 hw2.1 (0x05010000, 
0x003405ff) fw atheros-12.0.0.102-fw api 4 htt 0.0 wmi 4 cal otp max_sta 32
[10968.660865] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: debug 0 debugfs 1 tracing 0 dfs 
0 testmode 0
[10968.662882] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: firmware register dump:
[10968.662884] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [00]: 0x05010000 0x000015B3 
0x000A012D 0x00955B31
[10968.662886] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [04]: 0x000A012D 0x00060330 
0x00000016 0x8C605006
[10968.662888] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [08]: 0x00000000 0x00400000 
0x00400600 0x00000001
[10968.662890] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [12]: 0x00000009 0x00000000 
0x00931C61 0x00931C7D
[10968.662892] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [16]: 0x0096BDBC 0x0097F8C6 
0x00000000 0x00000000
[10968.662894] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [20]: 0x400A012D 0x0040E2B0 
0x00955A00 0x00404590
[10968.662896] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [24]: 0x809287D9 0x0040E310 
0x7A508BF8 0xC00A012D
[10968.662898] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [28]: 0x809288D7 0x0040E340 
0x00000000 0xFFF08040
[10968.662899] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [32]: 0x809290FE 0x0040E360 
0x00400000 0x00400600
[10968.662901] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [36]: 0x80929205 0x0040E380 
0x00000000 0x00400600
[10968.662903] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [40]: 0x40928024 0x0040E3B0 
0x0040D3D0 0x0040D3D0
[10968.662905] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [44]: 0x00000000 0x0040E3D0 
0x009BB001 0x00040020
[10968.662907] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [48]: 0x00401BF0 0x00000001 
0x00404B9C 0x00400000
[10968.662909] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [52]: 0x40928024 0x0040E3B0 
0x0040D3D0 0x0040D3D0
[10968.662910] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [56]: 0x51196000 0xEAB3E3DF 
0x36E760CE 0xE34A47DC
[10969.660666] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: failed to receive control 
response completion, polling..

The card in question is
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros Device [168c:0041] 
(rev 20)

What might be the problem?
-- 
Susi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola@fedoraproject.org

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Re: QCA6164 in Fedora

[Michal Kazior]

On 4 September 2015 at 03:02, Susi Lehtola
<jussilehtola@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Hello people,
>
>
> I recently bought a Lenovo U31 laptop for work, and was surprised wireless
> didn't work out of the box.
>
> Fortunately thanks to you the card (supposedly) works in linux, but I have
> yet to get mine to work.
>
> I've patched the Fedora 4.1.6 kernel
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1069561&action=diff
> to add support for the card, which I adapted from
>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1436940
>
> However, I'm having trouble loading the firmware. I took the firmware files
> from
>
> https://github.com/atondwal/ath10k-firmware/commit/88fca85ef59d708b9874e5b7885416b58aef9ee7
> and installed them into /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw2.1/, renaming
> firmare-5.bin to firmware-4.bin.

FYI This is asking for problems. You can't just go around renaming
firmware files like that. There's a reason why there are different
numbers in the filename.


>
> I also have added the necessary kernel option
>
> $ cat /etc/modprobe.d/ath10k.conf
> options ath10k_core skip_otp=y
>
> After these changes, the kernel does detect the card, but it fails to load
> the firmware.
>
> [10967.516277] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for
> ath10k/cal-pci-0000:03:00.0.bin failed with error -2
> [10968.660851] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: firmware crashed! (uuid
> 47cbe9a4-5fcd-41ae-b8ff-91e93702d083)
> [10968.660862] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: qca6174 hw2.1 (0x05010000,
> 0x003405ff) fw atheros-12.0.0.102-fw api 4 htt 0.0 wmi 4 cal otp max_sta 32
> [10968.660865] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: debug 0 debugfs 1 tracing 0 dfs 0
> testmode 0
> [10968.662882] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: firmware register dump:
> [10968.662884] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [00]: 0x05010000 0x000015B3
> 0x000A012D 0x00955B31
> [10968.662886] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [04]: 0x000A012D 0x00060330
> 0x00000016 0x8C605006
> [10968.662888] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [08]: 0x00000000 0x00400000
> 0x00400600 0x00000001
> [10968.662890] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [12]: 0x00000009 0x00000000
> 0x00931C61 0x00931C7D
> [10968.662892] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [16]: 0x0096BDBC 0x0097F8C6
> 0x00000000 0x00000000
> [10968.662894] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [20]: 0x400A012D 0x0040E2B0
> 0x00955A00 0x00404590
> [10968.662896] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [24]: 0x809287D9 0x0040E310
> 0x7A508BF8 0xC00A012D
> [10968.662898] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [28]: 0x809288D7 0x0040E340
> 0x00000000 0xFFF08040
> [10968.662899] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [32]: 0x809290FE 0x0040E360
> 0x00400000 0x00400600
> [10968.662901] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [36]: 0x80929205 0x0040E380
> 0x00000000 0x00400600
> [10968.662903] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [40]: 0x40928024 0x0040E3B0
> 0x0040D3D0 0x0040D3D0
> [10968.662905] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [44]: 0x00000000 0x0040E3D0
> 0x009BB001 0x00040020
> [10968.662907] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [48]: 0x00401BF0 0x00000001
> 0x00404B9C 0x00400000
> [10968.662909] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [52]: 0x40928024 0x0040E3B0
> 0x0040D3D0 0x0040D3D0
> [10968.662910] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [56]: 0x51196000 0xEAB3E3DF
> 0x36E760CE 0xE34A47DC
> [10969.660666] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: failed to receive control response
> completion, polling..
>
> The card in question is
> 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros Device [168c:0041] (rev
> 20)
>
> What might be the problem?

You're surely using wrong board.bin. The qca6164 will not work with
the board.bin for qca6174.

The board.bin problem is currently being addressed. In the meantime
you need to get an adequate eeprom_* file from windows driver and put
it as hw2.1/board.bin. You'll need to look into .inf file from the
windows driver and output of `lspci -vvnn` to understand which eeprom
file suits your device.


Michał

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Re: QCA6164 in Fedora

[Susi Lehtola]

On 09/03/2015 06:02 PM, Susi Lehtola wrote:
> Hello people,
>
>
> I recently bought a Lenovo U31 laptop for work, and was surprised
> wireless didn't work out of the box.
>
> Fortunately thanks to you the card (supposedly) works in linux, but I
> have yet to get mine to work.
>
> I've patched the Fedora 4.1.6 kernel
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1069561&action=diff
> to add support for the card, which I adapted from
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1436940
>
> However, I'm having trouble loading the firmware. I took the firmware
> files from
>
> https://github.com/atondwal/ath10k-firmware/commit/88fca85ef59d708b9874e5b7885416b58aef9ee7
>
> and installed them into /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw2.1/

I can confirm the card works with the linux-next tree, using a snapshot 
I took today.

However, it would be nice to get this working in the 4.1.6 kernel which 
supposedly supports the 6174 chip.

The problem in the Fedora kernel is that the direct firmware load fails, 
althoug the same firmware works with the linux-next tree.

What would need to be backported to the 4.1 tree in order to get the 
card working?
-- 
Susi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola@fedoraproject.org

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Re: QCA6164 in Fedora

[Susi Lehtola]

On 09/09/2015 05:48 PM, Susi Lehtola wrote:
> I can confirm the card works with the linux-next tree, using a snapshot
> I took today.

However, the card only seems to make a 1Mbps connection in the same 
situation where my old laptop made a 55Mbps one...
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Fedora Project Contributor
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Re: QCA6164 in Fedora

[Michal Kazior]

On 10 September 2015 at 03:24, Susi Lehtola
<jussilehtola@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On 09/09/2015 05:48 PM, Susi Lehtola wrote:
>>
>> I can confirm the card works with the linux-next tree, using a snapshot
>> I took today.
>
>
> However, the card only seems to make a 1Mbps connection in the same
> situation where my old laptop made a 55Mbps one...

How did you measure this? `iw` tool reports invalid tx bitrate for
ath10k due to firmware limitation. Did you test the actual performance
(iperf/wget)? Is it downlink or uplink? Are both as bad?


Michał

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Re: QCA6164 in Fedora

[Susi Lehtola]

On 09/21/2015 12:18 AM, Michal Kazior wrote:
> On 10 September 2015 at 03:24, Susi Lehtola
> <jussilehtola@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> On 09/09/2015 05:48 PM, Susi Lehtola wrote:
>>>
>>> I can confirm the card works with the linux-next tree, using a snapshot
>>> I took today.
>>
>>
>> However, the card only seems to make a 1Mbps connection in the same
>> situation where my old laptop made a 55Mbps one...
>
> How did you measure this? `iw` tool reports invalid tx bitrate for
> ath10k due to firmware limitation. Did you test the actual performance
> (iperf/wget)? Is it downlink or uplink? Are both as bad?

This was the link speed reported by NetworkManager. But yes, actual 
performance is much better, seeing 2.2 MB/sec is not uncommon [the 
internet connection is pretty slow].
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Susi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
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Re: QCA6164 in Fedora

[Michal Kazior]

On 10 September 2015 at 02:48, Susi Lehtola
<jussilehtola@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On 09/03/2015 06:02 PM, Susi Lehtola wrote:
>>
>> Hello people,
>>
>>
>> I recently bought a Lenovo U31 laptop for work, and was surprised
>> wireless didn't work out of the box.
>>
>> Fortunately thanks to you the card (supposedly) works in linux, but I
>> have yet to get mine to work.
>>
>> I've patched the Fedora 4.1.6 kernel
>>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1069561&action=diff
>> to add support for the card, which I adapted from
>>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1436940
>>
>> However, I'm having trouble loading the firmware. I took the firmware
>> files from
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/atondwal/ath10k-firmware/commit/88fca85ef59d708b9874e5b7885416b58aef9ee7
>>
>> and installed them into /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw2.1/
>
>
> I can confirm the card works with the linux-next tree, using a snapshot I
> took today.
>
> However, it would be nice to get this working in the 4.1.6 kernel which
> supposedly supports the 6174 chip.
>
> The problem in the Fedora kernel is that the direct firmware load fails,
> althoug the same firmware works with the linux-next tree.
>
> What would need to be backported to the 4.1 tree in order to get the card
> working?

You need to cherry-pick at least this patch:
https://github.com/kvalo/ath/commit/36582e5d4daeccf68a8a3cef9bc37b60fb7d45b9

The problem is qca6164 requires a different board.bin and will not
work with one from qca6174. The driver uses the same firmware filepath
for both. There's a per-pci-vid/pid board lookup but it's broken I
would discourage using it until we come up with a better solution.


Michał

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Re: QCA6164 in Fedora

[Susi Lehtola]

On 09/21/2015 12:16 AM, Michal Kazior wrote:
> On 10 September 2015 at 02:48, Susi Lehtola
> <jussilehtola@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> The problem in the Fedora kernel is that the direct firmware load fails,
>> althoug the same firmware works with the linux-next tree.
>>
>> What would need to be backported to the 4.1 tree in order to get the card
>> working?
>
> You need to cherry-pick at least this patch:
> https://github.com/kvalo/ath/commit/36582e5d4daeccf68a8a3cef9bc37b60fb7d45b9
>
> The problem is qca6164 requires a different board.bin and will not
> work with one from qca6174. The driver uses the same firmware filepath
> for both. There's a per-pci-vid/pid board lookup but it's broken I
> would discourage using it until we come up with a better solution.

I tried that but it didn't work; the card was detected but the firmware 
failed to load. The patch I formed is at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1069561

The exact same firmware and board.bin works with the linux-next tree.

However, now that the development version of Fedora comes with kernel 
4.3, I can just recompile the package for my laptop. This problem should 
solve itself with time..
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Susi Lehtola
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