qca6174 missing firmware or subsystem id?

Jiří Prchal jiri.prchal at aksignal.cz
Thu Oct 13 04:40:04 PDT 2016


Hi,
I've got this miniPCIe wifi module which comes with Asus motherboard:

$lspci -vnn
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [168c:003e] (rev 32)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [1043:86cd]
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 125
	Memory at f7000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: ath10k_pci
	Kernel modules: ath10k_pci

But I have problem to get it working. It look that wlan is there, but doesn't receive any SSID.

$ip a
4: wlp2s0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default qlen 1000
     link/ether c8:ff:28:0e:5e:e1 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

$iw dev wlp2s0 scan
  returns nothing.

I have Ubuntu 16.04 with this kernel:
$uname -a
Linux dole 4.4.0-42-generic #62-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 23:11:45 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I've tried both distro and git FW (probably the same), but it still complies about firmware-5.bin. I thing there is 
missing subsystem ID in board-2.bin as I mentioned there was added some other subID 2 months ago.

$dmesg | grep ath
[    1.997246] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: pci irq msi interrupts 1 irq_mode 0 reset_mode 0
[    2.252840] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/cal-pci-0000:02:00.0.bin failed with error -2
[    2.260813] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-5.bin failed with error -2
[    2.260816] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: could not fetch firmware file 'ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-5.bin': -2
[    4.461429] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: qca6174 hw3.2 (0x05030000, 0x00340aff sub 1043:86cd) fw 
WLAN.RM.2.0-00180-QCARMSWPZ-1 fwapi 4 bdapi 2 htt-ver 3.26 wmi-op 4 htt-op 3 cal otp max-sta 32 raw 0 hwcrypto 1 
features wowlan,ignore-otp,no-4addr-pad
[    4.461432] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: debug 0 debugfs 1 tracing 1 dfs 0 testmode 0
[    4.538049] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x6c
[    4.538051] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
[    4.538053] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
[    4.538053] ath: Regpair used: 0x6c
[    4.545712] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0 wlp2s0: renamed from wlan0

Can anybody help me, please? I'm totally new in this binaries so I don't know how to add it.
Thanks Jiri



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