Bug#879184: firmware-atheros: QCA6174 stops working on newer kernels after second group rekeying
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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