Atheros QCA6174 or QCA6164 firmware loading files fails

Hi,

I have a Lenovo G50-80 labtop with Atheros WIFI that does not work for me

The WIFI chip is either QCA6164 (reported by lspci) or QCA6174 (reported by dmesg).

It is a fresh installed unstable (unofficial with non-free firmware) - to let the ehtnet work.

I installed firmware-linux and firmware-atheros (got my bt working :-)).

Upgraded to unstable yesterday, and the Wifi does not work - The logs looks similar for

testing and unstable (when I have visually inspected them, I have not made a diff on them).

What I can find on the net it should work, but there are special firmware for QCA6164

(https://github.com/atondwal/ath10k-firmware/tree/master/ath10k/QCA6164/hw2.1)

But I am missing some files (says dmesg):

- ath10k/cal-pci-0000:03:00.0.bin

- ath10k/QCA6174/hw2.1/board-pci-168c:0041:17aa:3545.bin

The logs are from after upgrading to unstable.

Complete lspci, lshw, dmesg are available at: http://paste.debian.net/367508/

Relevant parts are included below.

Hope someone can help me,

Br,

Benny

lspci:

03:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6164 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 20)

lshw snippet:

*-network

description: Network controller

product: Qualcomm Atheros

vendor: Qualcomm Atheros

physical id: 0

bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0

version: 20

width: 64 bits

clock: 33MHz

capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list

configuration: driver=ath10k_pci latency=0

resources: irq:50 memory:c1000000-c11fffff

cat dmesg |grep ath10k

[ 1.628605] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: pci irq msi-x interrupts 8 irq_mode 0 reset_mode 0

[ 1.869734] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: firmware: failed to load ath10k/cal-pci-0000:03:00.0.bin (-2)

[ 1.869736] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/cal-pci-0000:03:00.0.bin failed with error -2

[ 1.873389] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: firmware: failed to load ath10k/QCA6174/hw2.1/board-pci-168c:0041:17aa:3545.bin (-2)

[ 1.873391] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/QCA6174/hw2.1/board-pci-168c:0041:17aa:3545.bin failed with error -2

[ 1.873396] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: failed to load spec board file, falling back to generic: -2

[ 1.874073] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware ath10k/QCA6174/hw2.1/board.bin

[ 1.876414] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware ath10k/QCA6174/hw2.1/firmware-5.bin

[ 3.060184] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: firmware crashed! (uuid n/a)

[ 3.060191] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: qca6174 hw2.1 (0x05010000, 0x003405ff, 168c:0041:17aa:3545 fallback) fw WLAN.RM.1.1-00141 api 5 htt-ver 0.0 wmi-op 4 htt-op 3 cal otp max-sta 32 raw 0 hwcrypto 1 features ignore-otp,no-4addr-pad

[ 3.060193] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: debug 0 debugfs 0 tracing 0 dfs 0 testmode 0

[ 3.062577] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: firmware register dump:

[ 3.062579] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [00]: 0x05010000 0x000015B3 0x000A012D 0x00955B31

[ 3.062581] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [04]: 0x000A012D 0x00060330 0x00000016 0x84785006

[ 3.062584] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [08]: 0x00000000 0x00400000 0x00400600 0x00000001

[ 3.062586] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [12]: 0x00000009 0x00000000 0x00931C61 0x00931C7D

[ 3.062587] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [16]: 0x0096BDBC 0x009286B6 0x00000000 0x00000000

[ 3.062589] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [20]: 0x400A012D 0x0040E2B0 0x00955A00 0x00404590

[ 3.062591] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [24]: 0x809287D9 0x0040E310 0x7A508CF8 0xC00A012D

[ 3.062593] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [28]: 0x809288D7 0x0040E340 0x00000000 0xFFF08040

[ 3.062597] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [32]: 0x809290FE 0x0040E360 0x00400000 0x00400600

[ 3.062598] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [36]: 0x80929205 0x0040E380 0x00000000 0x00400600

[ 3.062601] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [40]: 0x40928024 0x0040E3B0 0x0040D3D0 0x0040D3D0

[ 3.062602] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [44]: 0x00000000 0x0040E3D0 0x009BB001 0x00040020

[ 3.062604] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [48]: 0x00401BF0 0x00000001 0x00404B9C 0x00400000

[ 3.062606] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [52]: 0x40928024 0x0040E3B0 0x0040D3D0 0x0040D3D0

[ 3.062608] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: [56]: 0x51A73300 0xA0ED3EA9 0x55647251 0x096CA3C0

[ 4.059575] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: failed to receive control response completion, polling..

[ 5.060643] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: ctl_resp never came in (-110)

[ 5.060648] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: failed to connect to HTC: -110

[ 5.137464] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: could not init core (-110)

[ 5.137492] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: could not probe fw (-110)

[ 5.148727] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: cannot restart a device that hasn't been started