Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2016-01-10

Re: Wi-Fi - ath10k QCA9377 chipset support - kernel 4.2.x backport

From: poma <hidden>
Date: 2016-01-10 11:04:27

On 10.01.2016 02:36, Brandon Vincent wrote:
On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 6:12 PM, M. Gelle [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
Sorry, I thought you new there was only one public download that wasn't
working. I'll try this although I thought the file should have been a Linux
archive. I'll see if Brandon comes up with another link. Sorry again, for my
frustration.
Let's try using the latest backport drivers from upstream.

dnf group install "Development Tools"
dnf install kernel-devel
wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/backports/stable/v4.3/backports-4.3-1.tar.gz
tar -zxvf backports-4.3.1.tar.gz
cd backports-4.3.1
make defconfig-ath10k
make
sudo make install

Reboot the system and see if you wireless card starts to work.

Brandon Vincent

Kernel:
4.2.8-200.fc22.x86_64


Modules:
ath10k backports releases
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/ath10k/backports

This one includes ath10k QCA9377 chipset support:
$ wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/backports/2015/11/20/sha256sums.asc
$ wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/backports/2015/11/20/backports-20151120.tar.sign
$ wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/backports/2015/11/20/backports-20151120.tar.xz

$ gpg --verify sha256sums.asc
$ gpg --verify backports-20151120.tar.sign backports-20151120.tar.xz
$ sha256sum -c sha256sums.asc

$ tar xf backports-20151120.tar.xz
$ cd backports-20151120/
$ make defconfig-ath10k
$ make
$ su
# make install


Firmware:
[PATCH v2] ath10k: add QCA9377 chipset support
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg143148.html

<quote>
... pushed the firmware image here:

https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/tree/master/QCA9377/hw1.0

All reports, good or bad, are very welcome.
...
</quote>


# mkdirhier /usr/lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0
# cd /usr/lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0
# wget https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/raw/master/QCA9377/hw1.0/board.bin
# wget https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/raw/master/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-5.bin_WLAN.TF.1.0-00267-1 -O firmware-5.bin
# wget https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/raw/master/QCA9377/hw1.0/notice.txt_WLAN.TF.1.0-00267-1 -O notice-WLAN.TF.1.0-00267-1.txt

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