Unable to upgrade firmware for QCA988x module, ath10k!

[Michal Kazior]

On 2 October 2014 21:41, Ramprasad Vempati <ramprasad.vempati at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Michal & kalle,
>
> I finally managed to update regulatory and able to see 80Mhz support and
> also association in VHT format. But now I see the packets are not responded.
> If I assign static IP & try to PIN from Atheros STA to AP, I see ARP req
> followed by ARP reply in atheros machine, but no ICMP request is sent out.
> And ARP table also doesn't have this, even though wireshark or TCPDUMP shows
> this packet.
>
> I tried with another card which is internal to the laptop & everything works
> perfectly fine to the same AP.
>
> Any help on what I must have messed it around?
>
> I'm using kernel : 3.13, which is part of Ubuntu-14.04.

You're still using quite an old kernel. Try the latest kernel
preferably master branch from https://github.com/kvalo/ath/ or
backports[1][2] in case you can't upgrade the kernel itself before
reporting bugs, please. There's been a ton of patches to ath10k since
v3.13.

[1]: https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
[2]: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/backports/stable/v3.17-rc3/backports-3.17-rc3-1.tar.gz

Michał