Direct firmware load failed with error 2

[Ben Greear]

You need board.bin too.  Something like this if you want to
use my firmware, or firmware-5.bin for upstream 10.2 firmware:

[root at ben-ota-1 lanforge]# ls -l /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA988X/hw2.0/
total 1084
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root   2116 Sep 27 14:43 board.bin
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 201324 Oct 13 18:48 firmware-2.bin

Thanks,
Ben


On 10/24/2016 01:59 PM, cmckay at abineau.com wrote:
> Thanks Ben,
>
> Got the location from the website:
> root at apalis-imx6:/lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA988X/hw2.0# ls
> firmware-2.bin         firmware-5.bin
>
> I'll figure out how to do some printk's (I'm a newbie).
>
> Thanks,
> Colin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Ben Greear" <greearb at candelatech.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2016 4:11pm
> To: cmckay at abineau.com, ath10k at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: Direct firmware load failed with error 2
>
> Maybe add some printks in your driver to see exactly what it is trying to load?
>
> Maybe firmware is in wrong location?
>
> errno 2 == ENOENT, which probably means something like 'could not find file'.
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
>
> On 10/24/2016 12:55 PM, cmckay at abineau.com wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm attempting to add a Silex PCEAC or Compex WLE900VX (both QCA9880) mini PCIe card to a Toradex Apalis iMX6 SOM on their Ixora card. I added a BSP layer to Toradex's standard build, simply adding the ath10k and noting more.
>> I keep running into the following error:
>>
>> [ 7.063663] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0x01000000-0x011ff]
>> [ 7.172118] ath10k: pci irq MSI
>> [ 7.198024] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load failed with error 2
>> [ 7.209646] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Falling back to user helper
>> [ 8.626488] ath10k: could not fetch board data (-2)
>> [ 8.648471] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load failed with error 2
>> [ 8.693701] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Falling back to user helper
>> [ 8.712302] ath10k: could not fetch board data (-2)
>> [ 8.722757] ath10k: could not fetch firmware files (-2)
>> [ 8.781868] ath10k: could not probe fw (-2)
>> [ 8.781874] ath10k: failed to register driver core: -2
>> [ 8.782041] ath10k_pci: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -2
>>
>> I've tried the firmware-2, firmware-5 and Candella firmware. I can't find any information on what this error means or how to debug this issue. And the vendors are struggling to get me a solution.
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Colin McKay
>>
>>
>>
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