Direct firmware load for ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-5.bin failed with error -2

[Michal Kazior]

On 6 January 2017 at 15:25, Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel at free.fr> wrote:
> Le jeudi 05 janvier 2017 à 15:31 +0100, Xavier Bestel a écrit :
>> Le jeudi 05 janvier 2017 à 14:51 +0100, Michal Kazior a écrit :
>> > > > > > On 5 January 2017 at 14:28, Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel at free.fr> wrote:
>> > > I have an XPS 13 9360 with a stock Killer 1535, and I suffer random
>> > > freeze when enabling on-board WiFi. I'm not yet sure if it's due to
>> > > i915 or ath10k.
>> >
>> > Does it freeze the entire system? Try making sure ath10k_pci is loaded
>> > with reset_mode, e.g. via /etc/modprobe.d/ with:
>> >
>> >  options ath10k_pci reset_mode=1
>>
>> What's that "reset_mode" ? Where can I find doc about the various
>> options ?

modinfo ath10k_pci


> OK I tried that:
> options ath10k_core skip_otp=y reset_mode=1
> (I don't know what skip_opt is, but debian put it there so I left it).
> I still have some half-second freezes each few seconds.

I assumed "freeze" means your system just hangs. I no longer know what
you mean *exactly* by "freeze". Can you be more specific? How does it
manifest, really? When does it happen? What's does kernel log look
like?


Michał