ath10k_pci 0000:3a:00.0: Could not init core: -110

[Kalle Valo]

Paul Menzel <pmenzel at molgen.mpg.de> writes:

> Dear Kalle, dear Baochen,
>
>
> Am 27.05.24 um 11:10 schrieb Kalle Valo:
>> Baochen Qiang writes:
>> 
>>> On 5/27/2024 4:42 PM, Paul Menzel wrote:
>
>>>> On the Intel Kaby Lake notebook Dell XPS 13 with
>>>>
>>>>      3a:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174
>>>> 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [168c:003e] (rev 32)
>>>>
>>>> with at least a self-built Linux 6.9-rc5, on April 26th, 2024, and
>>>> Linux 6.8.11, today, May 27th, 2024, the error below happened, and
>>>> the device couldn’t authenticate to a WiFi network until reloading
>>>> the module *ath10k_core* and *ath10k_pci* (didn’t check just
>>>> *ath10k_pci*):
>>>>
>>>>      $ sudo modprobe -r ath10k_pci
>>>>      $ sudo modprobe -r ath10k_core
>>>>      $ sudo modprobe ath10k_pci
>>>>
>>>> ```
>>>> [   49.441618] ath10k_pci 0000:3a:00.0: wmi service ready event not received
>>>> [   49.523814] ath10k_pci 0000:3a:00.0: Could not init core: -110
>> [...]
>> 
>>> Are you using a distro kernel?
>
> The 6.8.11 is Debian’s current Linux kernel in the suite *unstable/sid*
> (*linux-image-6.8.11-amd64* 6.8.11-1).
>
>>> Could you check if below patch merged in your kernel? if not can
>>> you merge it and try again?
>>>
>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k?id=e57b7d62a1b2f496caf0beba81cec3c90fad80d5
>> Paul, if you are feeling brave to try out an -rc this commit is in
>> just
>> released v6.10-rc1.
>
> Thank you. I haven’t found out yet, how to reproduce this. I’ll keep
> an eye on it.
>
> As the commit message says:
>
>> This results in timeout issue if the interrupt is not fired, due to
>> some unknown reasons.
>
> There are reports from 2016 to 2021 with similar symptoms. These were
> supposedly fixed with
> `/usr/lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/board-2.bin` [1][2]:
>
>     $ md5sum /usr/lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/board.bin
>     /usr/lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/board-2.bin
>     cb37c63d9ca28f53fea1ff09ad7c7a82
>     /usr/lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/board.bin
>     651e921b372848b3928621e6f1d34b01
>     /usr/lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/board-2.bin

Most likely that's a different issue from yours, just with same symptoms
(firmware crashing during firmware initialisation). I have seen also
cases when the firmware crashes when using a wrong board file, but I
suspect your board file is correct.

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