Your message dated Fri, 03 Aug 2018 12:26:37 +0800
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and subject line Re: Bug#877711: Latest upstream firmware resolves this issue
has caused the Debian Bug report #877711,
regarding firmware-atheros: QCA6174 stops working on newer kernels after second
group rekeying
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Package: firmware-atheros
Version: 20170823-1
Severity: normal
Starting from linux 4.12, wifi silently stops working after the second WPA
group rekeying (see #875362):
oct. 19 19:35:43 vicious wpa_supplicant[868]: wlp58s0: CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED -
Connection to 14:cc:20:56:eb:94 completed [id=0 id_str=]
oct. 19 19:35:43 vicious wpa_supplicant[868]: p2p-dev-wlp58s0: CTRL-EVENT-
REGDOM-CHANGE init=COUNTRY_IE type=COUNTRY alpha2=FR
oct. 19 19:44:10 vicious wpa_supplicant[868]: wlp58s0: WPA: Group rekeying
completed with 14:cc:20:56:eb:94 [GTK=CCMP]
oct. 19 19:54:10 vicious wpa_supplicant[868]: wlp58s0: WPA: Group rekeying
completed with 14:cc:20:56:eb:94 [GTK=CCMP]
As hinted by [0], updating the following firmware files[1][2] fixes the issue:
/lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/board-2.bin
/lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-6.bin
[0]: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/ath10k/2017-August/010069.html
[1]:
https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/blob/master/QCA6174/hw3.0/board-2.bin
[2]:
https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/blob/master/QCA6174/hw3.0/4.4.1/firmware-6.bin_WLAN.RM.4.4.1-00065-QCARMSWP-1
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing-debug
APT policy: (990, 'testing-debug'), (990, 'testing'), (120,
'unstable-debug'), (120, 'unstable'), (105, 'experimental-debug'), (105,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, armhf
Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
firmware-atheros depends on no packages.
firmware-atheros recommends no packages.
Versions of packages firmware-atheros suggests:
ii initramfs-tools 0.130
-- no debconf information
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Version: 20180518-1
On Tue, 2017-10-24 at 14:41 +0100, Andrew McMillan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I can confirm that Brian Tarricone's solution also works for me, and
> the latest firmware resolves the issue:
>
>
> I.e. this commit from the 9th October:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware
> .git/commit/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0?id=96a7402d4172f4786ee93dd9f7cb3f76e1a
> 8025e
>
> "Update from a new firmware branch. This also fixes a regression with
> ath10k frequently disconnecting."
Therefore marking this closed in the new version of firmware-nonfree.
Sorry this update took so long.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
For every complex problem
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