I just wanted to check in and see what the status of support was for this hardware. I saw a few messages since I last posted. I also need Linux 4 kernel for other issues with the hardware.
Thanks! > Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 at 9:03 AM > From: "Moritz Morawietz" <moritz.morawi...@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de> > To: ath10k@lists.infradead.org > Subject: Re: QCA6174 hw2.1? > > I used 4.0.0-2. Also i had one kernel build where it worked, but, > because I didn't knew that you have to install nvidia drivers again, I > deletet it. I am not sure how i did it, so I'm currently trying again. > Maybe I need to understand the patching mechanisms, guess that would > help :D I did something with git… > > Thank you a lot for your help so far! > > 2015-04-30 2:07 GMT+02:00 Gabriele Martino <g.mart...@gmx.com>: > > On 28/04/2015 13:55, Moritz Morawietz wrote: > >> Many thanks for your fast help! > >> > >> I've made some progress, but ran into other problems. > >> If i compile ath10_pci, ath10k_core and ath from kvalo's tree and load > >> them, i get following dmesg output: > >> > >> [ 2.980448] ath10k_pci 0000:06:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) > >> [ 2.980750] ath10k_pci 0000:06:00.0: pci irq msi-x interrupts 8 > >> irq_mode 0 reset_mode 0 > >> [ 3.158860] ath10k_pci 0000:06:00.0: Direct firmware load for > >> ath10k/cal-pci-0000:06:00.0.bin failed with error -2 > >> [ 3.159611] ath10k_pci 0000:06:00.0: Direct firmware load for > >> ath10k/QCA6174/hw2.1/board-pci-168c:003e:1a56:1525.bin failed with > >> error -2 > >> [ 3.159613] ath10k_pci 0000:06:00.0: failed to load spec board > >> file, falling back to generic: -2 > >> [ 3.159922] ath10k_pci 0000:06:00.0: Direct firmware load for > >> ath10k/QCA6174/hw2.1/firmware-5.bin failed with error -2 > >> [ 3.159924] ath10k_pci 0000:06:00.0: could not fetch firmware file > >> 'ath10k/QCA6174/hw2.1/firmware-5.bin': -2 > >> [ 4.360946] ath10k_pci 0000:06:00.0: qca6174 hw2.1 (0x05010000, > >> 0x003405ff, 168c:003e:1a56:1525 fallback) fw killer-n1525-fw api 4 htt > >> 3.1 wmi 4 cal otp max_sta 32 > >> [ 4.360950] ath10k_pci 0000:06:00.0: debug 1 debugfs 1 tracing 1 > >> dfs 0 testmode 0 > >> [ 4.430068] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x6c > >> [ 4.430070] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map > >> [ 4.430072] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00 > >> [ 4.430072] ath: Regpair used: 0x6c > >> [ 4.430078] ath10k_pci 0000:06:00.0: failed to register ieee80211: -22 > >> [ 4.430097] ath10k_pci 0000:06:00.0: could not register to mac80211 > >> (-22) > >> > >> So I compiled mac80211, and tried to load it. What i get is a load of > >> that messages: > >> > >> [ 226.812494] mac80211: Unknown symbol cfg80211_cqm_rssi_notify (err -22) > >> [ 226.812497] mac80211: disagrees about version of symbol > >> cfg80211_auth_timeout > >> [ 226.812497] mac80211: Unknown symbol cfg80211_auth_timeout (err -22) > >> [ 226.812498] mac80211: disagrees about version of symbol > >> cfg80211_rx_unprot_mlme_mgmt > >> [ 226.812499] mac80211: Unknown symbol cfg80211_rx_unprot_mlme_mgmt (err > >> -22) > >> > >> Because mac80211 depends on cfg80211, i compilied and tested it. The > >> error messages reduced to > >> > >> [ 632.208849] mac80211: Unknown symbol rhashtable_insert_rehash (err 0) > >> [ 632.208881] mac80211: Unknown symbol rhashtable_insert_slow (err 0) > >> > >> Know I'm stuck. I'll try to compile and use the whole kernel (it's > >> compiling right now), but would prefer to just change the modules. > > I could find some references to "rhashtable_insert_rehash" with grep: > > /usr/src/linux/lib/rhashtable.c:int rhashtable_insert_rehash(struct > > rhashtable *ht) > > /usr/src/linux/lib/rhashtable.c:EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rhashtable_insert_rehash); > > > > This file is present in 3.18.11 kernel (I don't have older sources on > > this laptop). > > Which distribution and kernel are you using? > > You are compiling 4.0 (-> 3.20) modules, so you're likely to get strange > > issues if your kernel is too old. > > > > Regards, > > Gabriele > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ath10k mailing list > > ath10k@lists.infradead.org > > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath10k > > _______________________________________________ > ath10k mailing list > ath10k@lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath10k > _______________________________________________ ath10k mailing list ath10k@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath10k