Qualcomm Atheros Device 0042 (rev 30)

[Michal Kazior]

On 7 January 2016 at 13:15, vagner <vagnerrener at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Last week I compiled a 4.4-rcX kernel and the dmesg showed me that it was
> trying to load ath10k, but it failed. So, I gave up and installed 4.3 again.
> Perhaps I did something wrong, but I hope that the next 4.4 kernel will
> bring support for my wireless card.

Just post dmesg from 4.4 once you try again. You could've been missing
firmware files in paths ath10k expected them to be.


> On the other hand I am waiting for a reply from Pratik Singhal who said he
> was successful in making his wireless card - also in a lenovo ideapad - to
> work using a Windows drive...

You/he probably mean using some firmware-related stuff from windows
driver package - most likely the eeprom/board file which can be an
annoying requirement.


> By the way, do you know when 4.4-kernel is due?

According to the crystal ball it's due somewhere next week
(http://phb-crystal-ball.org/). It's already at -rc8 so I think it's a
matter of days.

Since you use debian you could use the `experimental` package repo and
get distro precompiled 4.4-rc8 right now.


Michał