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linux-firmware package

  1. Xenial (16.04)
  2. Bug #1436940
  3. Comment #64

Comment 64 for bug 1436940

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Patrick (pj2melan) wrote : Re: Atheros wifi 168c:0041(QCA6174) is not supported

Went through one or two minor bumps along my way, so I'll chronicle them here quickly:

Setup: Lenovo flex 3 14" or whatever, it has the 168c:0041 card everyone is raving about nowadays. Arch Linux, got the 4.1.6 kernel and patched it as above. Couldn't run the patch as-is, make sure the code you change keeps the intent of what that git patch is trying to do. Compiled kernel, that was fun.
Copied firmware into ath10k/QCA6174/hw2.1, then symlinked firmware-5.bin to firmware-4.bin, since dmesg wasn't mentioning firmware-5 but was saying it couldn't find firmware-4.
Had some trouble figuring out why it still wasn't working, was getting an error related to otp. Then came back, looked at our shepherd Diego, and "echo 'options ath10k_core skip_otp=y' > /etc/modprobe.d/ath10k.conf" and all was good.

Thanks for the opportunity to mess around in a limited way with my kernel, it was fun!

udabes Diego.