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Roma004

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Registered: 2021-05-07

Posts: 4

[SOLVED] Can not connect to wireless wifi during installing archlinux

Hey there, I have some troubles in connecting to wireless network during archlinux installation.

# uname -a
Linux archiso 5.11.2-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri, 26 Feb 2021 18:26:41 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

So, the problem is, that iwctl shows no devises in device list output. However there are wlan0 device in ip link output:

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 10:63:c8:d3:91:3d brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

My lspci -k output for network configuration is:

01:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 32)
    Subsystem: Lite-On Communications Inc Device 0847
    Kernel driver in use: ath10k_pci
    Kernel modules: ath10k_pci, wl

I guess, that is something wrong with aht10k driver. When I tried

ip link set wlan0 up

I received this:

[  554.394780] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: failed to setup htt: -110
[  554.467320] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Could not init core: -110

There also were these messages in dmesg output after system boot:

# dmesg | grep ath10k
[   12.436565] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: pci irq msi oper_irq_mode 2 irq_mode 0 reset_mode 0
[   12.780496] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: qca6174 hw3.2 target 0x05030000 chip_id 0x00340aff sub 11ad:0847
[   12.780502] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: kconfig debug 1 debugfs 1 tracing 1 dfs 0 testmode 0
[   12.780842] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: firmware ver WLAN.RM.4.4.1-00157-QCARMSWPZ-1 api 6 features wowlan,ignore-otp,mfp crc32 90eebefb
[   12.862568] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: failed to fetch board data for bus=pci,vendor=168c,device=003e,subsystem-vendor=11ad,subsystem-device=0847 from ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/board-2.bin
[   12.864035] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: board_file api 1 bmi_id N/A crc32 ed5f849a
[   12.955954] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: htt-ver 3.60 wmi-op 4 htt-op 3 cal otp max-sta 32 raw 0 hwcrypto 1
[   16.154468] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: wmi command 16389 timeout, restarting hardware
[   19.354468] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: wmi command 69633 timeout, restarting hardware
[   19.354473] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: already restarting
[   19.354475] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: could not suspend target (-11)
[   19.428642] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: cannot restart a device that hasn't been started
[   22.981132] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: wmi command 16387 timeout, restarting hardware
[   22.981137] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: already restarting
[   22.981139] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: failed to enable PMF QOS: -11
[   26.181153] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: wmi command 16389 timeout, restarting hardware
[   26.181163] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: already restarting
[   29.381147] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: wmi command 69633 timeout, restarting hardware
[   29.381153] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: already restarting
[   29.381155] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: could not suspend target (-11)
[   32.794951] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: wmi command 16387 timeout, restarting hardware
[   32.794961] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: already restarting
[   32.794965] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: failed to enable PMF QOS: -11
[   35.994900] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: wmi command 16389 timeout, restarting hardware
[   35.994911] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: already restarting
[   39.194911] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: wmi command 69633 timeout, restarting hardware
[   39.194925] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: already restarting
[   39.194928] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: could not suspend target (-11)

Do you have any ideas how to fix it?

Last edited by Roma004 (2021-05-10 11:28:02)

Roma004

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Registered: 2021-05-07

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] Can not connect to wireless wifi during installing archlinux

The same situation with already installed system (boot with another ssd). In other two laptops network works correctly. It seems to me, it is only a driver issue.

nikinbaidarr

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Registered: 2021-05-06

Posts: 92

Re: [SOLVED] Can not connect to wireless wifi during installing archlinux

Try

iwctl
station wlan0 scan
station wlan0 get-networks

and see if you can still connect to a Network.

Else there might be an issue with your iso boot device. Are you using a verified signature?

Roma004

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Registered: 2021-05-07

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] Can not connect to wireless wifi during installing archlinux

Try

iwctl
station wlan0 scan
station wlan0 get-networks

and see if you can still connect to a Network.

Else there might be an issue with your iso boot device. Are you using a verified signature?

Thank you for your reply!

However, It seems to me, I've found a solution (at least temporary) to this problem on this page: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=208874

I guess, that is something wrong with the driver for only that wifi card. So I've just ovewrited board.bin and firmware-4.bin files, as it was suggested there, and, WOW, it works now!

I will mark this topic as solved, in a nearest time.

Thank you again!