Re: Re: QCA6174 hw2.1?
Checking in again. Could I get the QCA6174 /2.1hw firmware made faster if I sponsored it? Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 at 10:44 AM From: Jason H jh...@gmx.com To: Jason H jh...@gmx.com Cc: Michal Kazior michal.kaz...@tieto.com, ath10k@lists.infradead.org ath10k@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Re: QCA6174 hw2.1? Just checking in. Any updates for the QCA6174? Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 at 9:57 AM From: Jason H jh...@gmx.com To: Michal Kazior michal.kaz...@tieto.com Cc: ath10k@lists.infradead.org ath10k@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Re: QCA6174 hw2.1? Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 at 4:23 AM From: Michal Kazior michal.kaz...@tieto.com To: Jason H jh...@gmx.com Cc: ath10k@lists.infradead.org ath10k@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Re: QCA6174 hw2.1? On 21 March 2015 at 21:31, jh...@gmx.com wrote: is there anyway you could process these files for me?. I would be willing to send you the files and go through some back and forth of feedback and whatnot. The issue is I just don't think I have the time or the expertise to devote to this. However I investigated exchanging the laptop to get a Linux compatible one, but its going to cost me money for the restocking fee. On top of that the next user of this laptop will be disgruntled when they find a non working copy of Linux on it. I investigated getting the restore cd but Lenovo's charging $70 for the media. So if you could help I would really appreciate it because this is the last thing that I need to get working but I really need it. and we could also get this chipset supported. I saw I wasn't the only one looking for Linux support for this driver. Thanks for willing to help. However I finally got my hands on the Killer 1525 card. I tried playing with it but I couldn't get ath10k to work with it yet. There's some firmware crash issue that needs investigating. Kalle's doing his best to sort this out internally. Hopefully we'll get this working soon and we'll let everyone know on the mailing list. I can understand your situation very well. I know it sucks. Thanks however in my investigation, this was not the same as the Killer card. ___ 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
Re: Re: QCA6174 hw2.1?
Just checking in. Any updates for the QCA6174? Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 at 9:57 AM From: Jason H jh...@gmx.com To: Michal Kazior michal.kaz...@tieto.com Cc: ath10k@lists.infradead.org ath10k@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Re: QCA6174 hw2.1? Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 at 4:23 AM From: Michal Kazior michal.kaz...@tieto.com To: Jason H jh...@gmx.com Cc: ath10k@lists.infradead.org ath10k@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Re: QCA6174 hw2.1? On 21 March 2015 at 21:31, jh...@gmx.com wrote: is there anyway you could process these files for me?. I would be willing to send you the files and go through some back and forth of feedback and whatnot. The issue is I just don't think I have the time or the expertise to devote to this. However I investigated exchanging the laptop to get a Linux compatible one, but its going to cost me money for the restocking fee. On top of that the next user of this laptop will be disgruntled when they find a non working copy of Linux on it. I investigated getting the restore cd but Lenovo's charging $70 for the media. So if you could help I would really appreciate it because this is the last thing that I need to get working but I really need it. and we could also get this chipset supported. I saw I wasn't the only one looking for Linux support for this driver. Thanks for willing to help. However I finally got my hands on the Killer 1525 card. I tried playing with it but I couldn't get ath10k to work with it yet. There's some firmware crash issue that needs investigating. Kalle's doing his best to sort this out internally. Hopefully we'll get this working soon and we'll let everyone know on the mailing list. I can understand your situation very well. I know it sucks. Thanks however in my investigation, this was not the same as the Killer card. ___ 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
Re: Re: QCA6174 hw2.1?
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 at 4:23 AM From: Michal Kazior michal.kaz...@tieto.com To: Jason H jh...@gmx.com Cc: ath10k@lists.infradead.org ath10k@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Re: QCA6174 hw2.1? On 21 March 2015 at 21:31, jh...@gmx.com wrote: is there anyway you could process these files for me?. I would be willing to send you the files and go through some back and forth of feedback and whatnot. The issue is I just don't think I have the time or the expertise to devote to this. However I investigated exchanging the laptop to get a Linux compatible one, but its going to cost me money for the restocking fee. On top of that the next user of this laptop will be disgruntled when they find a non working copy of Linux on it. I investigated getting the restore cd but Lenovo's charging $70 for the media. So if you could help I would really appreciate it because this is the last thing that I need to get working but I really need it. and we could also get this chipset supported. I saw I wasn't the only one looking for Linux support for this driver. Thanks for willing to help. However I finally got my hands on the Killer 1525 card. I tried playing with it but I couldn't get ath10k to work with it yet. There's some firmware crash issue that needs investigating. Kalle's doing his best to sort this out internally. Hopefully we'll get this working soon and we'll let everyone know on the mailing list. I can understand your situation very well. I know it sucks. Thanks however in my investigation, this was not the same as the Killer card. ___ ath10k mailing list ath10k@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath10k
Re: Re: QCA6174 hw2.1?
On 21 March 2015 at 21:31, jh...@gmx.com wrote: is there anyway you could process these files for me?. I would be willing to send you the files and go through some back and forth of feedback and whatnot. The issue is I just don't think I have the time or the expertise to devote to this. However I investigated exchanging the laptop to get a Linux compatible one, but its going to cost me money for the restocking fee. On top of that the next user of this laptop will be disgruntled when they find a non working copy of Linux on it. I investigated getting the restore cd but Lenovo's charging $70 for the media. So if you could help I would really appreciate it because this is the last thing that I need to get working but I really need it. and we could also get this chipset supported. I saw I wasn't the only one looking for Linux support for this driver. Thanks for willing to help. However I finally got my hands on the Killer 1525 card. I tried playing with it but I couldn't get ath10k to work with it yet. There's some firmware crash issue that needs investigating. Kalle's doing his best to sort this out internally. Hopefully we'll get this working soon and we'll let everyone know on the mailing list. I can understand your situation very well. I know it sucks. Michał ___ ath10k mailing list ath10k@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath10k
Re: Re: QCA6174 hw2.1?
is there anyway you could process these files for me?. I would be willing to send you the files and go through some back and forth of feedback and whatnot. The issue is I just don't think I have the time or the expertise to devote to this. However I investigated exchanging the laptop to get a Linux compatible one, but its going to cost me money for the restocking fee. On top of that the next user of this laptop will be disgruntled when they find a non working copy of Linux on it. I investigated getting the restore cd but Lenovo's charging $70 for the media. So if you could help I would really appreciate it because this is the last thing that I need to get working but I really need it. and we could also get this chipset supported. I saw I wasn't the only one looking for Linux support for this driver. Thank you. -Original message- Sent: Monday, 16 March 2015 at 10:05:20 From: Michal Kazior michal.kaz...@tieto.com To: Jason H jh...@gmx.com Subject: Re: QCA6174 hw2.1? On 13 March 2015 at 16:28, Jason H jh...@gmx.com wrote: On 13 March 2015 at 04:39, jh...@gmx.com wrote: I went through the archives, and the wiki but I still wasn't sure... I have a shiny new Lenovo z70, kernel 4.0-rc1/3. Dmesg reports failures for loading firmware in /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw2.1/... So I found the firmware Git repo, but it seems to be missing hw2.1. I even symlinked 2.1 to 3.0, no dice. You can't use hw3 firmware for hw2 hardware. The problem is there's no publicly available ath10k firmware for hw2 hardware.. I don't dual boot and this is a laptop so I'm looking to get my WiFi working. Any pointers are appreciated. Thanks. You could try building hw2 firmware ath10k binary yourself. You need to fetch athwlan.bin from Windows driver, extract otp image from hw3 firmware ath10k binary and then re-assemble both into hw3 firmware for ath10k. The ath10k binary blob is a tag-length-value format and can be understood by looking at ath10k_core_fetch_firmware_api_n(). Nobody seems to have tried this yet though. I installed WINE and attempted to install the driver from lenono on my non-lenovo with working wifi. The install failed (expected) but not before it extracted the actual driver installer images (expected). Parsing through an .inf file, and navigating my way through the sections, I end up at a section specifying eeprom_ar6320_2p1_NFA354xp.bin and qca61x420.bin as the firmware files. I have these files. Awesome. eeprom_ar6320_2p1_NFA354xp.bin looks like a board.bin. qca61x420.bin looks like main program binary. However I am now diverging from your instructions considerably. Also I don't know why I would want to reassemble into 3.0 when my system is looking for 2.1? Typo/mind derp :-) I obviously meant 2.1. I don't know what an 'otp image' is? I think I understand the part about the ath10k format though. OTP is a calibration related program which is run on device before running main program. It's embedded inside ath10k FW API blob. Could you update your instructions to suit the new information at hand? https://gist.github.com/kazikcz/c970cbf3a863ebbc4495 https://gist.github.com/kazikcz/64313b9e2470660faae1 Here are two simple and crude tools I have to deal with ath10k FW API blobs. Use with care. You can use the disassemble.py to extract the otp.bin from hw3 ath10k FW API blob: python disassemble.py /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-4.bin Then you can use the assemble.py to generate hw2.1 ath10k FW ABI blob: mkdir -p /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw2.1/ python assemble.py killer1252-testfw 0 path/to/qca61x420.bin path/to/otp.bin 4 /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw2.1/firmware-4.bin cp path/to/eeprom_ar6320_2p1_NFA354xp.bin /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw2.1/board.bin (mind the email line wrapping) Michał ___ ath10k mailing list ath10k@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath10k
