From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mailout09.t-online.de ([194.25.134.84]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.80.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1Z1e4L-0008VU-S7 for ath10k@lists.infradead.org; Sun, 07 Jun 2015 17:09:11 +0000 Received: from fwd40.aul.t-online.de (fwd40.aul.t-online.de [172.20.26.139]) by mailout09.t-online.de (Postfix) with SMTP id B833624C6AB for ; Sun, 7 Jun 2015 19:08:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Gregor Plata Subject: Re: QCA6174 hw2.1 firmware, take two? Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2015 19:08:36 +0200 Message-ID: <2128694.iEsF7A6qyf@gregors> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "ath10k" Errors-To: ath10k-bounces+kvalo=adurom.com@lists.infradead.org To: ath10k@lists.infradead.org Hi all, the solution described in the bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1383184 (comment #150) works perfectly for me. Wi-fi is stable without any drops and the 4.1.0-rc6- wl-ath kernel doesn't cause any issues but the wi-fi performance comes only to about 35%-40% of the performance on windows on the same machine downloading the same file from the same server . best regards Gregor Am Donnerstag, 4. Juni 2015, 19:03:55 schrieb Enrico Tagliavini: > Hi there, > > Just got the following device > > enrico@alientux ~ $ lspci -nn | grep QCA > 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac > Wireless Network Adapter [168c:003e] (rev 20) > > And discovered there is no firmware available for it. I looked already > at the April thread about it, but didn't managed to get it working. > This is on Fedora 22, kernel 4.0.4. > > I used dissect.py from here > https://gist.github.com/kazikcz/8e5845ad84ca251aa295 to generate the > firmware image from my Windows installation: > $ cat > /windows/Windows/System32/DriverStore/FileRepository/netathrx.inf_amd64_481 > f6e2b133b287d/qca61x420.bin > | ./dissect.py > > but I have no clue if that is actually the correct file. For sure it's > the only one containing "qca" end ending in ".bin" alongside > eeprom_qca9377_1p0_NFA435_olpc.bin which I used as board.bin. > > Unfortunately when trying those I get > root@alientux ~ # dmesg | grep ath > [ 18.518677] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) > [ 18.519124] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: pci irq msi-x interrupts 8 > irq_mode 0 reset_mode 0 > [ 18.667191] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for > ath10k/cal-pci-0000:03:00.0.bin failed with error -2 > [ 18.668652] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: invalid firmware magic > [ 18.668791] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: invalid firmware magic > [ 18.670086] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: invalid firmware magic > [ 18.670265] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for > ath10k/QCA6174/hw2.1/firmware.bin failed with error -2 > [ 18.670267] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: could not fetch firmware (-2) > [ 18.670269] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: could not fetch firmware files (-2) > [ 18.670271] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: could not probe fw (-2) > > No idea where to go from here. I'm currently not sure if I want to try > kvalo sources. Don't get me wrong but if I have to apply a patch to > the official Linux source tree that's ok, but switching to the > development tree is not what I was looking forward for this machine. > Can 4.1 help instead? I'm afraid it might now since I can see the fix > for the firmware crash is still not included. > > Thank you for the help. > Best regards. > > Enrico > > _______________________________________________ > ath10k mailing list > ath10k@lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath10k _______________________________________________ ath10k mailing list ath10k@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath10k