On 4 April 2016 at 13:26, Matthew Keeler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I have been running two QCA9880 based cards for a couple of months now. 
> Recently I needed to update some packages on the router and reboot and ever 
> since I have not been able to get both working again. I have tried 
> downgrading the packages (although none were related to the kernel/driver or 
> the firmware to no avail.

Can you list what packages were updated, please?


> Cards: Airetos AEX-QCA988-NX
> System: Arch Linux with kernel 4.4.5
> Firmwares tried: Everything from 10.2.4.70.9-2 through 10.2.4.70.31-2
>
> The symptoms are that upon boot most of the time one of the two cards doesn’t 
> think it can/should transmit on any 5GHz frequency (I haven’t seen the issue 
> with 2.4GHz frequency band). With dmesg I can see two sets of logs about the 
> EEPROM regdomain being 0x0 and it eventually setting my regulatory domain to 
> 0x3a US. iw reg get also confirms that both cards have the right US 
> regulatory domain. One thing which does sometimes clear it up is to "rmmod 
> ath10k_pci ath10k_core && modprobe ath10k_pci”. It doesn’t work every time 
> though.

Smells like regulatory problem, not ath10k per se.


> So 1) Should 2 ath10k cards coexist properly and 2) Has anyone seen similar 
> behavior and know how to fix it.

This should work fine.

Can you post kernel logs when it works/breaks? Do you have CRDA
installed/up-to-date? Can you try checking output of `iw reg get` when
it works/breaks?


Michał

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