QCA9377 and ath10k on Ubuntu 15.04 (Apparently now it's supported)

[dr-cono]

Sure, here's the output of dmesg | grep ath10k

[ 23.341990] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: pci irq msi-x interrupts 8 irq_mode 0 reset_mode 0
[ 23.850876] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/cal-pci-0000:03:00.0.bin failed with error -2
[ 23.908468] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/board-pci-168c:0042:105b:e09a.bin failed with error -2
[ 23.908472] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: failed to load spec board file, falling back to generic: -2
[ 23.932615] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-5.bin failed with error -2
[ 23.932619] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: could not fetch firmware file 'ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-5.bin': -2
[ 23.932658] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-4.bin failed with error -2
[ 23.932660] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: could not fetch firmware file 'ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-4.bin': -2
[ 23.932695] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-3.bin failed with error -2
[ 23.932696] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: could not fetch firmware file 'ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-3.bin': -2
[ 23.932731] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-2.bin failed with error -2
[ 23.932732] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: could not fetch firmware file 'ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-2.bin': -2
[ 23.932768] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware.bin failed with error -2
[ 23.932770] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: could not fetch firmware (-2)
[ 23.932793] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: could not fetch firmware files (-2)
[ 23.932815] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: could not probe fw (-2)

[jeremy31]

Strange

ls /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/

[dr-cono]

board.bin
firmware-5.bin_WLAN.TF.1.0-00267-1
notice.txt_WLAN.TF.1.0-00267-1

maybe rename firmware-5.bin_WLAN.TF.1.0-00267-1 to firmware-5.bin?

edit: changed the name and it worked! thanks a lot!..

Posting what i did to make it work: Notebook Model: Acer Aspire e5-473g.

sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) git
echo "options ath10k_core skip_otp=y" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/ath10k_core.conf
wget http://filebin.ca/2LVgpjSgiT56/backp...-11-05.tar.bz2
unzip backp...-11-05.tar.bz2
cd backports-ath10k-2015-11-05
make defconfig-ath10k
make
sudo make install
git clone https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware.git
sudo cp -r ath10k-firmware/ath10k/ /lib/firmware/
sudo cp -r ath10k-firmware/QCA9377 /lib/firmware/ath10k/
cp firmware-5.bin_WLAN.TF.1.0-00267-1 firmware-5.bin
Reboot

Thanks a lot!

[rinfinity]

Ah! Finally it works. Thanks dr-cono for your patience with testing, jeremy31and xbarmar for your valuable input. Hope you'll keep on checking back this thread to help people out.
For the record, dr-cono's QCA9377 is a NFA435 according to documentation available at Acer website.

xbarmar, could you please sort out the fw naming issue?

[mojayu]

Yes!!! It woks for my Aspire E 15! Thanks!

[rinfinity]

Yes!!! It woks for my Aspire E 15! Thanks!

Nice to know that it's working for you. As there are many versions of QCA9377, it'd be of some help to the developer in further development, if you could share the wireless info.txt here. Here's how to generate it: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=370108

I wish to report success with a QCA9377, particulars whereof are:
Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros Device [168c:0042] (rev 30)
Subsystem: Lite-On Communications Inc Device [11ad:0806]

Please note the different subsystem; dr-cono's was a Foxconn:
"Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device [105b:e09a]"

So, apparentely, the subsystem manufacturer/make has no bearing on the provided module backport as long as the device is:
Qualcomm Atheros Device [168c:0042] (rev 30)

And oh! Since I made an issue of it, the machine(Acer Aspire E15 E5-573-32JT) was manufactured in September, 2015AD.

[lmatiolis]

Awesome! Mine here is working too now!

I had the same problem dr-cono had. After renaming firmware-5.bin_WLAN.TF.1.0-00267-1 to firmware-5.bin and rebooting it started working!

For the record, I checked the drivers on Windows and it says it's a NFA455.

Thanks a lot guys, I can't really express in words how great this was! o/

[rinfinity]

NFA455 works? The plot thickens, my dear Watson!

Can we have a look at your wirelessinfo.txt. Here's how to generate it: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=370108
What's of great interest is the device ID and the subsystem device ID and manufacturer. This information might be of some help to xbarmar (the original developer).

For the record again, here's the manual (with board diagram) for Samsung's implementation of NFA455 called A3LNFA455 (A3L is FCC's shorthand for Samsung)
https://fccid.io/document.php?id=2606121

Aah! The only QCA9377 NFA455 with ID 168C:0042 (Rev 30)* was made for Samsung. This means yours is a Samsung machine. Right?
In that case, this means this patch is good for (at least) all QCA9377 till the device ID is 168c:0042 (Rev 30)

* There's another one too, but it's rev 31.

[tizo_rh]

Excelent! Mine is working on Ubuntu 14.04. My laptop: Acer Aspire E5-573-5148. Based on post http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...5#post13386625 from dr-cono, what I did was:

sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) git
echo "options ath10k_core skip_otp=y" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/ath10k_core.conf

In a temoporary directory (on a new Kernel installation, only repeat the following steps):

wget http://filebin.ca/2LVgpjSgiT56/backports-ath-2015-11-05.tar.bz2
tar -vxf backports-ath-2015-11-05.tar.bz2
cd backports-ath10k-2015-11-05
make defconfig-ath10k
make
sudo make install

Again in the temporary directory:

git clone https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware.git
sudo cp -r ath10k-firmware/ath10k/ /lib/firmware/
sudo cp -r ath10k-firmware/QCA9377 /lib/firmware/ath10k/
sudo mv /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-5.bin_WLAN.TF.1.0-00267-1 /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-5.bin

Then reboot.

[lmatiolis]

rinfinity: Yep, my notebook is Samsung!

I've attached the wireless info... hope it helps!

Just for the record, I've also tried it on an Ubuntu 15.10 and it's also working.