ath10k QCA9377 fails on Acer laptop running 4.13.0-16-generic

Sun Oct 22 00:36:06 PDT 2017

Hi,

The content is generated with 'wpa_passphrase', and I cannot see
anything related to p2p. This is the content:

network={
ssid="mySSID"
#psk="cleartextpassword"
psk=<long hash>
}

I'm not sure, but I believe this Atheros QCA9377 (NFA435) on this
laptop is not supported, or I must have missed out on some steps. :(
Even more frustrating is that when I try to do the ndiswrapper
solution, the module seem to insert nicely with ndiswrapper -i ,
however when I do depmod -a and modprobe ndiswrapper, I get:

loadndisdriver: loadndisdriver: load_driver(336): too many .bin files
for driver netathr10x

On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Sebastian Gottschall
<s.gottschall at dd-wrt.com> wrote:
> the problem seems to be in /etc/wpa.conf
> but i dont know the content. so really cant help here.
> its seems that a interface named p2p-dev-wlp3s0 is refered in it, but the
> correct  name is just wlp3s0
>
>
>
> Am 22.10.2017 um 07:26 schrieb William Josefsson:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've a Acer Aspire 1, A114-31 (Bios 1.08) which I've installed Ubuntu
>> 17.01 server on. I've spent 2 days trying to the wireless working.
>> I've retrieved and installed the firmware from:
>> https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware using the QCA9377 firmware:
>> board.bin, board-2.bin,
>> WLAN.TF.1.0/firmware-5.bin_WLAN.TF.1.0-00002-QCATFSWPZ-5.
>>
>> Kernel:  4.13.0-16-generic #19-Ubuntu SMP
>> The latest stable backports fails to compile, so I've installed:
>> backports-4.14-rc2-1.tar.gz instead.
>> I had to disable secure boot to not get error about missing key.
>>
>> $ sudo modprobe ath10k_pci ath, results in:
>>
>> [ 2317.636700] Loading modules backported from Linux version
>> v4.14-rc2-0-ge19b205be43d
>> [ 2317.636702] Backport generated by backports.git v4.14-rc2-1-0-g8bfe0960
>> [ 2317.656612] ath10k_pci: unknown parameter 'ath' ignored
>> [ 2317.657939] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: pci irq msi oper_irq_mode 2
>> irq_mode 0 reset_mode 0
>> [ 2317.955588] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for
>> ath10k/pre-cal-pci-0000:03:00.0.bin failed with error -2
>> [ 2317.955601] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for
>> ath10k/cal-pci-0000:03:00.0.bin failed with error -2
>> [ 2317.955631] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for
>> ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-6.bin failed with error -2
>> [ 2317.956039] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: qca9377 hw1.1 target
>> 0x05020001 chip_id 0x003821ff sub 11ad:08a6
>> [ 2317.956044] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: kconfig debug 0 debugfs 0
>> tracing 0 dfs 0 testmode 0
>> [ 2317.956731] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: firmware ver
>> WLAN.TF.1.0-00002-QCATFSWPZ-5 api 5 features ignore-otp crc32 c3e0d04f
>> [ 2318.019845] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: board_file api 2 bmi_id N/A
>> crc32 8aedfa4a
>> [ 2318.638349] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: htt-ver 3.44 wmi-op 4 htt-op 3
>> cal otp max-sta 32 raw 0 hwcrypto 1
>> [ 2318.641758] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x69
>> [ 2318.641761] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
>> [ 2318.641763] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
>> [ 2318.641765] ath: Regpair used: 0x69
>> [ 2318.651606] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0 wlp3s0: renamed from wlan0
>>
>> $ sudo wpa_supplicant -iwlp3s0 -Dnl80211 -c/etc/wpa.conf
>> Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
>> Could not read interface p2p-dev-wlp3s0 flags: No such device
>> p2p-dev-wlp3s0: CTRL-EVENT-REGDOM-CHANGE init=BEACON_HINT type=UNKNOWN
>>
>> When I run dhclient wlp3s0 it just hangs without retrieving an IP lease.
>>
>>
>> I have been unable to find the 3 missing files requested above. Can
>> someone please advice how to get this working? thx will
>>
>>
>>
>> lspci -v
>>
>> 03:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless
>> Network Adapter (rev 31)
>> Subsystem: Lite-On Communications Inc QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network
>> Adapter
>> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 376
>> Memory at 91000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
>> Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
>> Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/8 Maskable+ 64bit-
>> Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
>> Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
>> Capabilities: [148] Virtual Channel
>> Capabilities: [168] Device Serial Number 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
>> Capabilities: [178] Latency Tolerance Reporting
>> Capabilities: [180] L1 PM Substates
>> Kernel driver in use: ath10k_pci
>> Kernel modules: ath10k_pci
>>
>>
>> $ rfkill list
>> 0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
>> Soft blocked: no
>> Hard blocked: no
>> 1: acer-bluetooth: Bluetooth
>> Soft blocked: no
>> Hard blocked: no
>> 2: hci0: Bluetooth
>> Soft blocked: no
>> Hard blocked: no
>> 3: phy0: Wireless LAN
>> Soft blocked: no
>> Hard blocked: no
>>
>> $ sudo iw dev
>> phy#0
>> Interface wlp3s0
>> ifindex 3
>> wdev 0x1
>> addr 3c:a0:67:f4:2e:e9
>> type managed
>> txpower 0.00 dBm
>>
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