Hi, I have a brand new Acer F5-571 with a qualcomm atheros device and the
wireless doesn't work. I removed windows10 and installed the latest ubuntu-mate
wily 15.10 (same issue in mint 17.3). I'm somewhat of a newbie so please be
gentle. I have tried a number of the points in this bug report to no avail,
posts 81/90, the intro notes and others have all been tried. comment 118 didnt
work, for some reason dkms would not install.
Kernel 4.2.0-34-generic
sudo lshw -C network
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: Qualcomm Atheros
vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
version: 30
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:c1000000-c11fffff
lspci : 03:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros Device 0042 (rev 30)
Really need to get this wireless card working. Suggestions? If so please
step by step, don't assume I know how to do stuff.
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Title:
Qualcomm Atheros QCA6164 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0041]
is not supported
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in linux-firmware package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in linux source package in Vivid:
Confirmed
Status in linux source package in Wily:
Confirmed
Bug description:
This card remains unsupported out-of-the-box by the ath10k_pci kernel
module. At this point, it looks like kvalo's ath10k-firmware repo
just needs to be pulled in.
Speaking of which, that repo contains a folder for the QCA6174, but
not for the QCA6164. The firmware in the QCA6174 folder works for the
QCA6164; I still find it strange. I'm not sure how well the actual
QCA6174 [168c:003e] firmware works.
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HOW TO GET THIS CARD TO WORK:
As of February 26, 2016, this has become relatively simple.
I'm unsure of what version kernel you need to be using - it's either
at least 4.0 or at least 4.2. I'm currently using 4.5. If the kernel
you have isn't working, try that one.
1) Get the latest firmware from https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-
firmware/archive/master.zip
2) Unzip this file, and copy contents of ath10k-firmware-master to
/lib/firmware/ath10k.
3) Rename two of the firmware files like so:
cd /lib/firmware/QCA6174/hw2.1
sudo mv firmware-5.bin_SW_RM.1.1.1-00157-QCARMSWPZ-1 firmware-5.bin
cd /lib/firmware/QCA6174/hw3.0
sudo mv firmware-4.bin_WLAN.RM.2.0-00180-QCARMSWPZ-1 firmware-4.bin
4) Reboot your computer. Run "lshw -C network" to see if your card is
recognized.
If you created a "/lib/modprobe.d/ath10k.conf" file earlier to disable
otp, you can remove it. I did, and the card still works fine.
Last updated Match 18, 2016
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