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Atondwal

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Registered: 2010-05-16

Posts: 18

Re: Atheros killer n1525 firmware

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/at … 04842.html I really shouldn't have wiped windows so quickly... Apparently this is just the 1x1 version of 168c:003e, so if we had the firmware it would be a trivial change. But there's no mention of this since on the mailing list.

Atondwal

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Registered: 2010-05-16

Posts: 18

Re: Atheros killer n1525 firmware

Got it working!

This kernel patch : https://github.com/atondwal/linux/commi … 2a04392466
This firmware : https://github.com/atondwal/ath10k-firm … 6164/hw2.1

DarioP

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From: Geneva

Registered: 2011-01-05

Posts: 165

Re: Atheros killer n1525 firmware

I added your firmware-5.bin and your board.bin in addition to the ones in the previous page:

$ ls /usr/lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw2.1/
board.bin  board.bin.back  firmware-2.bin  firmware-4.bin  firmware-5.bin

and got rid of few error lines in the log. Not sure if it makes any difference though.

osalas

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From: Kaiserslautern, Germany

Registered: 2015-08-05

Posts: 25

Re: Atheros killer n1525 firmware

Got it working!

This kernel patch : https://github.com/atondwal/linux/commi … 2a04392466
This firmware : https://github.com/atondwal/ath10k-firm … 6164/hw2.1

I don't like the patch, if I read it correctly is removing the support for 003e and replacing it with 0041.
Anyway, I'm happy that you goit it working

Last edited by osalas (2015-08-11 07:46:05)

Apox

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Registered: 2015-08-12

Posts: 1

Re: Atheros killer n1525 firmware

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 0#p1550790 worked perfectly for my MSI GS60, thanks a lot !

osalas

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From: Kaiserslautern, Germany

Registered: 2015-08-05

Posts: 25

Re: Atheros killer n1525 firmware

An update broke my configuration, so just so you know you just need to reinstall the backports.

DarioP

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From: Geneva

Registered: 2011-01-05

Posts: 165

Re: Atheros killer n1525 firmware

It is still not clear to me why we need backports at all.

Backports provide drivers released on newer kernels backported for usage on older kernels.

As we are using very recent releases of the kernel I cannot understand why it is needed.

Anyway I am experiencing a lot of issues with the card, slow down and loss of packets. Under windows now it doesn't even connect to my network while nearby devices have no issues. I'm thinking about throwing it away and get an Intel board.

osalas

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From: Kaiserslautern, Germany

Registered: 2015-08-05

Posts: 25

Re: Atheros killer n1525 firmware

It is still not clear to me why we need backports at all.

Backports provide drivers released on newer kernels backported for usage on older kernels.

As we are using very recent releases of the kernel I cannot understand why it is needed.

Anyway I am experiencing a lot of issues with the card, slow down and loss of packets. Under windows now it doesn't even connect to my network while nearby devices have no issues. I'm thinking about throwing it away and get an Intel board.

The backports include the support for the card since it is still in development (as I understand).

It has not the best performance for me as well but I have no trouble using it while in windows.

rsoul

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Registered: 2013-05-29

Posts: 44

Re: Atheros killer n1525 firmware

I'm using this card in my laptop. I get excellent performance in windows. Have been using backports for the last couple of weeks,  but a recent kernel upgrade has removed this necessity. Getting poor speeds though. Reporting 6 Mb/s on my 5ghz network and 1Mb/s on the 2.4.  Just reporting my experience.

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On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage

seqizz

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Registered: 2011-04-04

Posts: 37

Re: Atheros killer n1525 firmware

I'm using this card in my laptop. I get excellent performance in windows. Have been using backports for the last couple of weeks,  but a recent kernel upgrade has removed this necessity. Getting poor speeds though. Reporting 6 Mb/s on my 5ghz network and 1Mb/s on the 2.4.  Just reporting my experience.

Didn't expect to see someone with same experience. Latest kernel (4.1.6-1-ARCH) filled dmesg with these messages but working without backports:

[ 6123.638973] ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0: Unknown eventid: 16389
[ 6123.694596] ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0: Unknown eventid: 16389
[ 6123.743327] ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0: Unknown eventid: 16389
[ 6123.798395] ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0: Unknown eventid: 16389
[ 6123.847175] ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0: Unknown eventid: 16389
[ 6123.903644] ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0: Unknown eventid: 16389
[ 6123.952380] ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0: Unknown eventid: 16389
[ 6124.007386] ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0: Unknown eventid: 16389
[ 6124.056144] ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0: Unknown eventid: 16389
[ 6124.111317] ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0: Unknown eventid: 16389
[ 6128.831364] ath10k_warn: 47 callbacks suppressed
[ 6128.831373] ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0: Unknown eventid: 16389
[ 6128.880049] ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0: Unknown eventid: 16389
[ 6129.035113] ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0: Unknown eventid: 16389
[ 6129.083807] ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0: Unknown eventid: 16389
[ 6129.239076] ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0: Unknown eventid: 16389
[ 6129.287780] ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0: Unknown eventid: 16389
[ 6129.442903] ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0: Unknown eventid: 16389
[ 6129.491567] ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0: Unknown eventid: 16389
[ 6129.646931] ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0: Unknown eventid: 16389
[ 6129.695564] ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0: Unknown eventid: 16389

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Creeds matter very little… The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label. - James Branch Cabell

rsoul

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Registered: 2013-05-29

Posts: 44

Re: Atheros killer n1525 firmware

Hey seqizz.

I'm getting exactly the same messages

[  157.241435] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Unknown eventid: 16389
[  157.290036] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Unknown eventid: 16389
[  157.444866] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Unknown eventid: 16389
[  157.493504] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Unknown eventid: 16389
[  157.648611] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Unknown eventid: 16389
[  157.697244] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Unknown eventid: 16389
[  157.852207] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Unknown eventid: 16389
[  157.900785] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Unknown eventid: 16389
[  158.055731] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Unknown eventid: 16389
[  158.104223] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Unknown eventid: 16389

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On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage

infinityz

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Registered: 2015-08-29

Posts: 1

Re: Atheros killer n1525 firmware

Hi All, I've got a working configuration with latest backports and kernel 4.1.6, but seems the card won't work with kernel. 4.2rc7
Anyone else has experienced the same issue or I'm just doing it wrong?

rsoul

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Registered: 2013-05-29

Posts: 44

Re: Atheros killer n1525 firmware

Anyone having problems with 5Ghz in the past day?

I seemed to have fixed the issue by installing the missing firmware from https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kerne … 174/hw2.1/

Still only getting 6mb/s, but at least it's working again.

Last edited by rsoul (2015-10-27 22:23:20)

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On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage

osalas

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From: Kaiserslautern, Germany

Registered: 2015-08-05

Posts: 25

Re: Atheros killer n1525 firmware

Anyone having problems with 5Ghz in the past day?

I seemed to have fixed the issue by installing the missing firmware from https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kerne … 174/hw2.1/

Still only getting 6mb/s, but at least it's working again.

Well, I changed the kernel to linux-rts and was having some issues regarding stabilty, I downloaded only the firmware-5 from the link that you posted and it got pretty stable. Thanks for that.

infinityz: Before installing the rts kernel, it was working alright. Not completly sure if I was in 4.2
Try posting you dmesg | grep ath10k and let's see what is the problem.

rsoul

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Registered: 2013-05-29

Posts: 44

Re: Atheros killer n1525 firmware

Anyone having problems with 5Ghz in the past day?

I seemed to have fixed the issue by installing the missing firmware from https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kerne … 174/hw2.1/

Still only getting 6mb/s, but at least it's working again.

Well, I changed the kernel to linux-rts and was having some issues regarding stabilty, I downloaded only the firmware-5 from the link that you posted and it got pretty stable. Thanks for that.

infinityz: Before installing the rts kernel, it was working alright. Not completly sure if I was in 4.2
Try posting you dmesg | grep ath10k and let's see what is the problem.

Oh I'm not so sure it has worked. It's certainly more stable, but on the whole worse than it was. It looks like Ubuntu might have a fix https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … mments=all

I just wish this card was as good as it was in Windows. It's so fast and stable that it makes me cry on Arch.

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On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage

osalas

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From: Kaiserslautern, Germany

Registered: 2015-08-05

Posts: 25

Re: Atheros killer n1525 firmware

I will upload the bin files that I have when I get home. If you compiled and installed the backports it should work well.
I tested it for 2-3 hours yesterday (usually I have a ethernet cable available so I don't use the wifi so often) and was connected to a strong signal, everything worked fine and I was impressed by the performance and stability.
Tomorrow, I will take my laptop to a problem area (free university wifi sucks!) and see how it behaves.

rsoul

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Registered: 2013-05-29

Posts: 44

Re: Atheros killer n1525 firmware

I had backports installed for a long time. Not needed it for a month or two. Behaviour changed yesterday and going by the launchpad thread I would assume that it's not just me. When you say strong and good signal, what speeds are you getting?

I thought it was solved, but the behaviour has been pretty poor today. Unstable and slow. Without working wifi my Arch is pretty useless.

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On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage

osalas

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From: Kaiserslautern, Germany

Registered: 2015-08-05

Posts: 25

Re: Atheros killer n1525 firmware

For anyone interested the Killer Networking realeased some official .bin's ( I think mainly the board.bin since the fimware-4 is kvalo's)
You can find that here: http://www.killernetworking.com/support … ntu-debian

I have been using a stronger external card, but I will begin testing the embedded card.
Cheers

PS. It was stable enough to use for short periods but decided on getting a stronger WiFi card.

Last edited by osalas (2016-01-14 09:48:35)