Hi Ken, On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Ken Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > Yesterday, I installed Fedora 27 on a Dell Venue 8 Pro (5830). > > I installed the ath6kl firmware from https://github.com/qca/ath6kl-firmware/ > > The Wi-Fi works for a while, but then stops. It seems to start up > again about 30 minutes later. > > Is this a known problem ? Is there any to fix it ?
Hard to know. You've not really given us enough information that would be helpful to help you. Kernel version? dmesg dump? Backports? Which chip? SDIO or USB? Network manager or other? All of this information is necessary to help. Usually your distro would come with the right firmware, and if it doesn't, usually the proper place to get it from is https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/ Though, if you're needing ar6004/hw3.0 it's missing for some reason (@Kalle, why isn't that fw in linux-firmware?) What I can tell you is I have ath6kl on many kernel versions on both 6003 and 6004 connected solid for months at a time with 0 noticeable drops. This might help: https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/documentation/reporting_bugs > > FYI, I added : > > echo options ath6kl_core debug_mask=0x140400 > /etc/modprobe.d/55-ath6k.conf > > ... so I'm getting more debug info. Are the other debug bits I should try ? > Not bad, but I'd also suggest adding the recovery bit. 0x940400 would be a good place to start. Get us a kernel messages dump and maybe we can help more. - Steve
