Re: [ath10K] QCA6174 firmware

[vagner <vagnerrener@gmail.com>]

I have a very similar issue here, with a new Lenovo IdeaPad I bought 3 
weeks ago...
It is really annoying to use a usb wireless that cannot hold internet 
conection for 5 minutes and then having to plug and unplug it again. 
After 15 years using GNU/Linux and now thinking in going back to Windows 
because of this unsolved issue
I have also tried to solve this issue with backports, Kvalo, Compiling a 
new kernel, copying firmware to /lib/firmware/ath10k folders and so on 
and nothing has worked.
When I compiled the driver, it claimed QCA9377, and I copied this folder 
to /lib/firmware/ath10k. The firmware worked, but the board.bin did not 
work and until now I did not solve the issue  :(


lspci

02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros Device 0042 (rev 30)


lshw
  *-network UNCLAIMED
                 description: Network controller
                 product: Qualcomm Atheros
                 vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
                 physical id: 0
                 bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
                 version: 30
                 width: 64 bits
                 clock: 33MHz
                 capabilities: bus_master cap_list
                 configuration: latency=0
                 resources: memory:a1000000-a11fffff


On 01/13/2016 04:09 PM, John Detter wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I recently bought a laptop (Samsung) that has a Qualcomm Atheros 
> QCA6174 card. I have tried using the firmware from both kvalo's repo 
> and the official linux-firmware repo and neither of them have worked. 
> I am running a fresh Ubuntu 15.10 installation (Linux 4.2.0). I have 
> also tried installing Ubuntu Gnome 15.10 with the mainline kernel 
> build (Linux 4.4.0) and that didn't work either. The laptop I'm using 
> does have a button on the keyboard to enable/disable the wifi and I'm 
> not sure if it's causing an issue or not. I have checked rfkill list 
> and there is neither a hard nor soft block on the wlan. I'm not really 
> sure where to go from here, any help would be much appreciated!
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> - John
>
> Directory structure when I tried firmware from linux-firmware:
>
> root@Ubuntu-15:/lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0# pwd
> /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0
> root@Ubuntu-15:/lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0# ls -al
> total 744
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root   4096 Jan 13 07:41 .
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root   4096 Jan 13 07:39 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   8124 Jan 13 07:38 board.bin
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     11 Jan 13 07:41 
> board-pci-168c:003e:144d:412f.bin -> ./board.bin
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 733784 Jan 13 07:39 firmware-4.bin
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     16 Jan 13 07:40 firmware-5.bin -> 
> ./firmware-4.bin
>
> Directory structure when I tried kvalo's firmware:
>
> root@Ubuntu-15:/lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0# pwd
> /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0
> root@Ubuntu-15:/lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/new# ls -al
> total 844
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 Jan 13 07:31 .
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root   4096 Jan 13 07:41 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  24692 Jan 13 07:17 board-2.bin
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   8124 Jan 13 07:17 board.bin
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     11 Jan 13 07:17 
> board-pci-168c:003e:144d:412f.bin -> ./board.bin
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 733784 Jan 13 07:17 
> firmware-4.bin_WLAN.RM.2.0-00180-QCARMSWPZ-1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     44 Jan 13 07:18 firmware-5.bin -> 
> firmware-4.bin_WLAN.RM.2.0-00180-QCARMSWPZ-1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  79801 Jan 13 07:17 
> notice.txt_WLAN.RM.2.0-00180-QCARMSWPZ-1
>
>
> Here is the relevant part of my dmesg log:
>
> jdetter@Ubuntu-15:~$ dmesg | grep ath10
> [    6.789911] ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
> [    6.791752] ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: pci irq msi-x interrupts 8 
> irq_mode 0 reset_mode 0
> [    7.009504] ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: Direct firmware load for 
> ath10k/cal-pci-0000:3b:00.0.bin failed with error -2
> [    9.145690] ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: qca6174 hw3.2 (0x05030000, 
> 0x00340aff, 168c:003e:144d:412f) fw WLAN.RM.2.0-00180-QCARMSWPZ-1 api 
> 5 htt 3.26 wmi 4 cal otp max_sta 32
> [    9.145694] ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: debug 0 debugfs 1 tracing 1 
> dfs 0 testmode 0
> [   10.144947] ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: suspend timed out - target 
> pause event never came
> [   13.219455] ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0 wlp59s0: renamed from wlan0
> [   18.479782] ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: failed to enable dynamic BW: -11
> [   21.479376] ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: could not suspend target (-11)
> [   29.770121] ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: failed to enable dynamic BW: -11
> [   32.769665] ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: could not suspend target (-11)
>
> Here is my lspci and lshw output:
>
> jdetter@Ubuntu-15:~$ lspci | grep QCA
> 3b:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless 
> Network Adapter (rev 32)
>
> root@Ubuntu-15:~# lshw
> ...
>         *-pci:2
>              description: PCI bridge
>              product: Sunrise Point-H PCI Express Root Port #9
>              vendor: Intel Corporation
>              physical id: 1d
>              bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.0
>              version: f1
>              width: 32 bits
>              clock: 33MHz
>              capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm normal_decode 
> bus_master cap_list
>              configuration: driver=pcieport
>              resources: irq:16 memory:ed200000-ed3fffff
>            *-network DISABLED
>                 description: Wireless interface
>                 product: QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
>                 vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
>                 physical id: 0
>                 bus info: pci@0000:3b:00.0
>                 logical name: wlp59s0
>                 version: 32
>                 serial: b8:86:87:c7:2d:a9
>                 width: 64 bits
>                 clock: 33MHz
>                 capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list 
> ethernet physical wireless
>                 configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath10k_pci 
> driverversion=4.2.0-23-generic firmware=WLAN.RM.2.0-00180-QCARMSWPZ-1 
> latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
>                 resources: irq:319 memory:ed200000-ed3fffff
> ...
>
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