QCA6174 hw2.1 firmware, take two?

[Jason H]

Glad to see I'm not the only one with this card!

What are the blockages to getting this properly supported? I figure he kernel patch has to work it's way though the maintainers, but are there any restrictions with publishing the firmware for the linux driver?


> Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2015 at 1:22 PM
> From: "Enrico Tagliavini" <enrico.tagliavini at gmail.com>
> To: ath10k at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: QCA6174 hw2.1 firmware, take two?
>
> Hi again,
> 
> ok this was dumb.... I forgot to assemble back the firmware and I
> realized it just after sending out the previous email (that's why the
> driver was complaining about the invalid magic).
> 
> Sorry for the noise, I apologize.
> 
> Hope to see this fixed in upstream Linux kernel soon.
> 
> Best regards.
> 
> Enrico.
> 
> 
> P.S.: this is another Alienware 15 like Gabriele's. I think they all
> ship with such a WiFi. Just pointing it out since Dell now is even
> shyly suggesting to try out Linux
> https://twitter.com/DellCaresPRO/status/603780236531081216 (not on
> Alienware, but still...)
> 
> On 4 June 2015 at 19:03, Enrico Tagliavini <enrico.tagliavini at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Just got the following device
> >
> > enrico at alientux ~ $ lspci -nn | grep QCA
> > 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac
> > Wireless Network Adapter [168c:003e] (rev 20)
> >
> > And discovered there is no firmware available for it. I looked already
> > at the April thread about it, but didn't managed to get it working.
> > This is on Fedora 22, kernel 4.0.4.
> >
> > I used dissect.py from here
> > https://gist.github.com/kazikcz/8e5845ad84ca251aa295 to generate the
> > firmware image from my Windows installation:
> > $ cat /windows/Windows/System32/DriverStore/FileRepository/netathrx.inf_amd64_481f6e2b133b287d/qca61x420.bin
> > | ./dissect.py
> >
> > but I have no clue if that is actually the correct file. For sure it's
> > the only one containing "qca" end ending in ".bin" alongside
> > eeprom_qca9377_1p0_NFA435_olpc.bin which I used as board.bin.
> >
> > Unfortunately when trying those I get
> > root at alientux ~ # dmesg | grep ath
> > [   18.518677] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
> > [   18.519124] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: pci irq msi-x interrupts 8
> > irq_mode 0 reset_mode 0
> > [   18.667191] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for
> > ath10k/cal-pci-0000:03:00.0.bin failed with error -2
> > [   18.668652] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: invalid firmware magic
> > [   18.668791] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: invalid firmware magic
> > [   18.670086] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: invalid firmware magic
> > [   18.670265] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for
> > ath10k/QCA6174/hw2.1/firmware.bin failed with error -2
> > [   18.670267] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: could not fetch firmware (-2)
> > [   18.670269] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: could not fetch firmware files (-2)
> > [   18.670271] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: could not probe fw (-2)
> >
> > No idea where to go from here. I'm currently not sure if I want to try
> > kvalo sources. Don't get me wrong but if I have to apply a patch to
> > the official Linux source tree that's ok, but switching to the
> > development tree is not what I was looking forward for this machine.
> > Can 4.1 help instead? I'm afraid it might now since I can see the fix
> > for the firmware crash is still not included.
> >
> > Thank you for the help.
> > Best regards.
> >
> > Enrico
> 
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