Comment 67 for bug 1670041

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Dmitrii Shcherbakov (dmitriis) wrote :

So, going back to question in #60, the Dell link just says to get the latest stuff from kvalo's firmware repo.

If you are on 17.10 like myself then you already have it and it doesn't help with the original problem:

➜ ~ apt policy linux-firmware
linux-firmware:
  Installed: 1.169
  Candidate: 1.169
  Version table:
 *** 1.169 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main i386 Packages
        500 http://ru.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://ru.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

➜ ~ sha256sum /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-4.bin
dc74ba148cf88f1f99a62854112ec574d8c265d88417a4d969461448b0ab60c5 /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-4.bin

➜ hw3.0 sha256sum ~/src/ath10k-firmware/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-4.bin_WLAN.RM.2.0-00180-QCARMSWPZ-1
dc74ba148cf88f1f99a62854112ec574d8c265d88417a4d969461448b0ab60c5 /home/username/src/ath10k-firmware/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-4.bin_WLAN.RM.2.0-00180-QCARMSWPZ-1

[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Retr
[ 5] 0.00-10.04 sec 29.2 MBytes 24.4 Mbits/sec 0 sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.04 sec 29.2 MBytes 24.4 Mbits/sec receiver