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#1 2015-12-30 21:04:58

frazers
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[SOLVED] ath10k backports installed and running, not recognizing...

I bought a new Lenovo Yoga 700 and got an Arch dualboot up and running, however the wifi isn't working out of the box.

lspci has this to say about the network card:

$ lspci
...
01:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros Device 0042 (rev 30)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device 4035
	Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 255
	Memory at b2000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [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
...

After some Googling, I found instructions to install the appropriate ath10k backports here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? … tWRHSV2Htj

I followed the steps, and ath10k appears to be running:

$ lsmod | grep ath10k
ath                    28672  1 ath10k_core
ath10k_core           192512  1 ath10k_pci
ath10k_pci             36864  0
cfg80211              466944  3 ath,mac80211,ath10k_core
compat                 16384  3 cfg80211,mac80211,ath10k_pci
mac80211              585728  1 ath10k_core

However, the output of lspci hasn't changed to reflect the driver is associated with the network card, and I cant see a wireless interface.

Would anyone here know what I'm missing, or what I can check?

Last edited by frazers (2016-01-07 20:10:00)

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#2 2015-12-31 10:19:43

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Re: [SOLVED] ath10k backports installed and running, not recognizing...

dmesg should contain some additional information did you do any of the firmware downloads/renames mentioned in the thread? I doubt you need ath10k backports, but the correct firmware files.

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#3 2016-01-01 13:26:21

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Re: [SOLVED] ath10k backports installed and running, not recognizing...

Atheros devices are a pain in the neck. My wife has a Ath9k and I had to write a script to connect using wpa_supplicant.

Let me know if you need more info

Andrew

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#4 2016-01-01 14:19:28

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Re: [SOLVED] ath10k backports installed and running, not recognizing...

dmesg | grep ath10k

May contain important clues

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#5 2016-01-01 15:58:53

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Re: [SOLVED] ath10k backports installed and running, not recognizing...

If you are pretty sure you did everything right, just check with

ip link

if the wifi adapter is displayed.

Anyway i followed this guide and all is working well now:
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drive … backports/

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#6 2016-01-03 02:01:13

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Re: [SOLVED] ath10k backports installed and running, not recognizing...

Hi all. Thanks for the help!

It isn't showing up in `ip link`, and `dmesg | grep ath10k` doesn't return anything.

@V1del, I did follow those steps, but is there any other prodding I may need to do to get the firmware installed?

@fdservices, more info would be great. Was she having similar issues?

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#7 2016-01-03 08:17:40

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Re: [SOLVED] ath10k backports installed and running, not recognizing...

Yes, she could not make a successful connection using any of the tools available at the time. As I recall, when she did connect it would not stay up.

Anyway we need to know the name of your wireless interface. You will get that from 

$ ip addr

and 

$ iwconfig

Let us know what the output says

Andrew

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#8 2016-01-03 10:32:41

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Re: [SOLVED] ath10k backports installed and running, not recognizing...

if dmesg doesn't contain any mention of that it will likely not have an interface... Where are you loading ath10k from? What does 

lspci -k

tell you about the kernel module in use? Maybe your card's PID VID isn't yet part of either the backports nor the official kernel

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#9 2016-01-03 11:58:03

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Re: [SOLVED] ath10k backports installed and running, not recognizing...

Post 

lshw -c net; rfkill list all

also

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#10 2016-01-04 06:21:11

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Re: [SOLVED] ath10k backports installed and running, not recognizing...

@fdservice - Right now`ip addr` only shows `lo` and the phone I'm tethering to, the wifi card isn't showing up at all.

@V1del - I downloaded "backports-4.2.6-1" from http://drvbp1.linux-foundation.org/~mcg … backports/, and cloned the firmware from https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware.git.

$ lspci -k
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Sky Lake Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 08)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3838
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Sky Lake Integrated Graphics (rev 07)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3839
	Kernel modules: i915
00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device 1903 (rev 08)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3838
	Kernel driver in use: proc_thermal
	Kernel modules: processor_thermal_device
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Device 9d2f (rev 21)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3838
	Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
	Kernel modules: xhci_pci
00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device 9d31 (rev 21)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3838
00:15.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device 9d60 (rev 21)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3838
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Device 9d3a (rev 21)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3838
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Device 9d03 (rev 21)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3838
	Kernel driver in use: ahci
	Kernel modules: ahci
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9d15 (rev f1)
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
	Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9d18 (rev f1)
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
	Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9d48 (rev 21)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3838
00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Device 9d21 (rev 21)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3838
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Device 9d70 (rev 21)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3838
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
	Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Device 9d23 (rev 21)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3838
	Kernel modules: i2c_i801
01:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros Device 0042 (rev 30)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device 4035
02:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM108M [GeForce 940M] (rev a2)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3839
	Kernel modules: nouveau

@jeremy31:

$ sudo lshw -c net | rfkill list all
  *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Network controller
       product: Qualcomm Atheros
       vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: 30
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:b2000000-b21fffff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       physical id: 2
       logical name: enp0s20f0u2
       serial: aa:88:79:e5:b0:51
       capabilities: ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rndis_host driverversion=22-Aug-2005 firmware=RNDIS device ip=192.168.42.233 link=yes multicast=yes
0: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: yes
	Hard blocked: yes
1: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: yes
	Hard blocked: yes
2: hci0: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: yes
	Hard blocked: no

The second interface listed being the phone I've tethered to.

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#11 2016-01-04 09:08:18

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Re: [SOLVED] ath10k backports installed and running, not recognizing...

Did you read this?

Andrew

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#12 2016-01-04 09:12:15

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Re: [SOLVED] ath10k backports installed and running, not recognizing...

Can you post the whole of lsmod output?

Andrew

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#13 2016-01-05 00:17:51

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Re: [SOLVED] ath10k backports installed and running, not recognizing...

I did, yes. The instructions on the third page were the original ones I followed, although I found equivalents for "build-essentials" and a different link for the backports.

$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
rndis_host             16384  0
cdc_ether              16384  1 rndis_host
usbnet                 32768  2 rndis_host,cdc_ether
mii                    16384  1 usbnet
uvcvideo               86016  0
videobuf2_vmalloc      16384  1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_memops       16384  1 videobuf2_vmalloc
videobuf2_core         40960  1 uvcvideo
btusb                  40960  0
btrtl                  16384  1 btusb
btbcm                  16384  1 btusb
rtsx_usb_sdmmc         28672  0
btintel                16384  1 btusb
rtsx_usb_ms            20480  0
hid_multitouch         20480  0
v4l2_common            16384  1 videobuf2_core
bluetooth             446464  5 btbcm,btrtl,btusb,btintel
mmc_core              110592  1 rtsx_usb_sdmmc
videodev              143360  3 uvcvideo,v4l2_common,videobuf2_core
memstick               16384  1 rtsx_usb_ms
usbhid                 45056  0
rtsx_usb               20480  2 rtsx_usb_sdmmc,rtsx_usb_ms
media                  20480  2 uvcvideo,videodev
joydev                 20480  0
mousedev               20480  0
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     49152  1
intel_rapl             20480  0
x86_pkg_temp_thermal    16384  0
coretemp               16384  0
snd_hda_codec_conexant    24576  1
nouveau              1314816  0
snd_hda_codec_generic    69632  1 snd_hda_codec_conexant
kvm                   446464  0
crct10dif_pclmul       16384  0
crc32_pclmul           16384  0
crc32c_intel           24576  0
snd_hda_intel          32768  0
snd_hda_codec         106496  4 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_intel
aesni_intel           167936  0
i915                 1056768  0
mxm_wmi                16384  1 nouveau
ttm                    77824  1 nouveau
snd_hda_core           49152  5 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
aes_x86_64             20480  1 aesni_intel
lrw                    16384  1 aesni_intel
snd_hwdep              16384  1 snd_hda_codec
drm_kms_helper        102400  2 i915,nouveau
gf128mul               16384  1 lrw
glue_helper            16384  1 aesni_intel
snd_pcm                86016  4 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_core
drm                   286720  4 ttm,i915,drm_kms_helper,nouveau
ablk_helper            16384  1 aesni_intel
cryptd                 20480  2 aesni_intel,ablk_helper
intel_gtt              20480  1 i915
evdev                  24576  10
psmouse               118784  0
i2c_algo_bit           16384  2 i915,nouveau
snd_timer              28672  1 snd_pcm
input_leds             16384  0
led_class              16384  2 rtsx_usb_sdmmc,input_leds
mac_hid                16384  0
snd                    65536  8 snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_pcm,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
processor_thermal_device    16384  0
int340x_thermal_zone    16384  1 processor_thermal_device
pcspkr                 16384  0
intel_soc_dts_iosf     16384  1 processor_thermal_device
serio_raw              16384  0
iosf_mbi               16384  2 intel_soc_dts_iosf,intel_rapl
soundcore              16384  1 snd
shpchp                 32768  0
i2c_i801               20480  0
ideapad_laptop         24576  0
i2c_hid                20480  0
int3400_thermal        16384  0
sparse_keymap          16384  1 ideapad_laptop
acpi_thermal_rel       16384  1 int3400_thermal
wmi                    20480  2 mxm_wmi,nouveau
pinctrl_sunrisepoint    28672  0
hid                   114688  3 i2c_hid,hid_multitouch,usbhid
battery                20480  0
video                  32768  3 i915,ideapad_laptop,nouveau
button                 16384  2 i915,nouveau
pinctrl_intel          20480  1 pinctrl_sunrisepoint
tpm_crb                16384  0
tpm                    32768  1 tpm_crb
acpi_pad               20480  0
ac                     16384  0
processor              32768  4
sch_fq_codel           20480  2
ath10k_pci             36864  0
ath10k_core           192512  1 ath10k_pci
ath                    28672  1 ath10k_core
mac80211              585728  1 ath10k_core
cfg80211              466944  3 ath,mac80211,ath10k_core
compat                 16384  6 cfg80211,mac80211,rndis_host,usbnet,ath10k_pci,cdc_ether
rfkill                 20480  4 cfg80211,ideapad_laptop,bluetooth
ip_tables              28672  0
x_tables               28672  1 ip_tables
ext4                  507904  1
crc16                  16384  2 ext4,bluetooth
mbcache                20480  1 ext4
jbd2                   90112  1 ext4
sd_mod                 36864  3
atkbd                  24576  0
libps2                 16384  2 atkbd,psmouse
ahci                   36864  2
xhci_pci               16384  0
libahci                28672  1 ahci
xhci_hcd              155648  1 xhci_pci
libata                196608  2 ahci,libahci
scsi_mod              147456  2 libata,sd_mod
usbcore               196608  9 btusb,uvcvideo,rndis_host,rtsx_usb,usbhid,usbnet,xhci_hcd,xhci_pci,cdc_ether
usb_common             16384  1 usbcore
i8042                  24576  2 libps2,ideapad_laptop
serio                  20480  6 serio_raw,atkbd,i8042,psmouse

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#14 2016-01-05 00:34:10

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Re: [SOLVED] ath10k backports installed and running, not recognizing...

What does 

modinfo ath10k

show?

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#15 2016-01-05 00:37:46

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Re: [SOLVED] ath10k backports installed and running, not recognizing...

modinfo: ERROR: Module ath10k not found.

So maybe I _don't_ have it installed.

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#16 2016-01-05 00:40:35

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Re: [SOLVED] ath10k backports installed and running, not recognizing...

from List_of_Wi-Fi_Device_IDs_in_Linux

Device ID PCI_168c_0042
First seen kernel version v4.4-rc1
First seen kernel date 2015-11-16
Chipsets / Adapters Qualcomm
Kernel modules

Unfortunately the module field is blank for the entry,  but it does show support of some kind should be present in the 4.4 kernel series without the need for an out of tree driver.

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#17 2016-01-05 08:35:56

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Re: [SOLVED] ath10k backports installed and running, not recognizing...

According to this it will be in kernel 4.4

Andrew

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#18 2016-01-05 11:26:04

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Re: [SOLVED] ath10k backports installed and running, not recognizing...

I think backports-20151120 is the one that supports your wifi.  In some of the newer versions there is no defconfig for wifi or ath10k and I don't know the reason.

fdservices is correct as the code is in 4.4-rc8

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#19 2016-01-05 16:40:01

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Re: [SOLVED] ath10k backports installed and running, not recognizing...

frazers wrote:

@V1del - I downloaded "backports-4.2.6-1" from http://drvbp1.linux-foundation.org/~mcg … backports/, and cloned the firmware from https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware.git.

What did you do with the two items that you downloaded?

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#20 2016-01-05 19:12:14

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Re: [SOLVED] ath10k backports installed and running, not recognizing...

That backport version likely doesn't provide support for your wifi.  Check backports-4.2.6-1/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c

The version I downloaded just has 

#define QCA988X_2_0_DEVICE_ID	(0x003c)
#define QCA6174_2_1_DEVICE_ID	(0x003e)

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#21 2016-01-05 19:29:13

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Re: [SOLVED] ath10k backports installed and running, not recognizing...

I downloaded and installed backports-20151120 from http://www.spinics.net/lists/backports/msg03799.html, and now if I run "ip link" I can see my wifi interface. Progress!

However, when I ran wifi-menu to connect it spat out "Could not read interface p2p-dev-wlp1s0 flags: No such device".

dmesg had this to say:

$ dmesg | grep ath10k
[    1.214427] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[    1.214888] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: pci irq msi-x interrupts 8 irq_mode 0 reset_mode 0
[    1.439642] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/cal-pci-0000:01:00.0.bin failed with error -2
[    1.506103] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: found invalid board magic
[    1.771582]  intel_soc_dts_iosf fb_sys_fops shpchp iosf_mbi i2c_algo_bit mei ideapad_laptop btintel intel_lpss_pci wmi bluetooth sparse_keymap battery int3400_thermal video acpi_thermal_rel i2c_hid pinctrl_sunrisepoint pinctrl_intel hid tpm_crb intel_lpss_acpi tpm intel_lpss acpi_pad ac button fjes processor ath10k_pci(O) ath10k_core(O) ath(O) mac80211(O) cfg80211(O) compat(O) rfkill ip_tables x_tables ext4 crc16 mbcache jbd2 sd_mod atkbd libps2 ahci libahci xhci_pci libata xhci_hcd scsi_mod usbcore usb_common i8042 serio
[    3.313444] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: qca9377 hw1.0 (0x05020000, 0x003820ff sub 17aa:4035) fw WLAN.TF.1.0-00267-1 fwapi 5 bdapi 1 htt-ver 3.1 wmi-op 4 htt-op 3 cal otp max-sta 32 raw 0 hwcrypto 1 features ignore-otp
[    3.313445] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: debug 1 debugfs 1 tracing 0 dfs 0 testmode 0
[    3.319156] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0 wlp1s0: renamed from wlan0

There was a line above the third one with the same message about an "ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/board-2.bin" file, so I copied "board.bin" to "board-2.bin" and it went away. I couldn't find an "ath10k/cal-pci.*" file anywhere, but some other forum posts had that error and were working okay. Is my issue with the "invalid board magic" line? Or somewhere else?

It might also be worth mentioning that between a system update and trying to install "linux-mainline" because it looked like it was version 4.4 (pacman exited with an error, so I don't think I was successful), my kernel is now 4.3.3-2.

Thanks all for chiming in!

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#22 2016-01-05 20:06:00

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Re: [SOLVED] ath10k backports installed and running, not recognizing...

frazers wrote:

There was a line above the third one with the same message about an "ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/board-2.bin" file, so I copied "board.bin" to "board-2.bin" and it went away. I couldn't find an "ath10k/cal-pci.*" file anywhere, but some other forum posts had that error and were working okay. Is my issue with the "invalid board magic" line? Or somewhere else?

It might also be worth mentioning that between a system update and trying to install "linux-mainline" because it looked like it was version 4.4 (pacman exited with an error, so I don't think I was successful), my kernel is now 4.3.3-2.

Thanks all for chiming in!

Working off the current kernel tree ( as that as where the backports originate )
hw.h board-2.bin is for a different api so would expect it to have a different format than the contents of board.bin so yes that is probably the cause of the "invalid board magic"
Strangley just above in the code there is

/* QCA9377 1.0 definitions */
#define QCA9377_HW_1_0_FW_DIR          ATH10K_FW_DIR "/QCA9377/hw1.0"
#define QCA9377_HW_1_0_FW_FILE         "firmware.bin"
#define QCA9377_HW_1_0_OTP_FILE        "otp.bin"
#define QCA9377_HW_1_0_BOARD_DATA_FILE "board.bin"
#define QCA9377_HW_1_0_PATCH_LOAD_ADDR	0x1234

So it seems strange to me it is looking for board-2.bin no idea on cal-pci-0000:01:00.0.bin sorry.
What was the error when you tried to install linux mainline?  It should be logged in /var/log/pacman.log

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#23 2016-01-05 22:15:11

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Re: [SOLVED] ath10k backports installed and running, not recognizing...

What is the result of 

md5sum /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/board.bin

The firmware from kvalo should be 8e0e7d3f64b97db8b9015321bf345faf

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#24 2016-01-06 03:49:34

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Re: [SOLVED] ath10k backports installed and running, not recognizing...

The error isn't in the log, but if I remember correctly it was two "duplicate target errors." "pacman -Q" can't find it installed though. I've tried reinstalling but I start getting "The next patch would create the file x, which already exists!  Assume -R? [n]" messages and aren't sure how to proceed there.

$ md5sum /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/board.bin
44349f6ae93cf9ceffb164f58d4fb124  /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/board.bin

However I downloaded a copy of the file from GitHub and it had the same hash.

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#25 2016-01-06 07:55:44

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Re: [SOLVED] ath10k backports installed and running, not recognizing...

This thread might help. It mentions the "found invalid board magic" problem among others.

Andrew

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