Surface Go - Atheros Qualcomm Killer N1525 Wireless-AC [168c:003e] not correctly recognized

[l***@mailbox.org]

Hello,

Output of dmesg on Surface Go fresh installed Ubuntu 18.10.

"[ 4.242132] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: qca6174 hw3.2 target 0x05030000 chip_id 0x00340aff sub 168c:3370
[ 4.242138] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: kconfig debug 0 debugfs 1 tracing 1 dfs 0 testmode 0
[ 4.243006] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: firmware ver WLAN.RM.4.4.1-00079-QCARMSWPZ-1 api 6 features wowlan,ignore-otp crc32 fd869beb
[ 4.308059] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: failed to fetch board data for bus=pci,vendor=168c,device=003e,subsystem-vendor=168c,subsystem-device=3370 from ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/board-2.bin
[ 4.309354] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: board_file api 1 bmi_id N/A crc32 ed5f849a"

There is a board.bin available directly from the vendor http://www.killernetworking.com/support/K1535_Debian/board.bin But I have no clue what the content of that file is, if somehting is missing etc.

The only thing which is missing is getting this added to https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/ath10k/boardfiles so the official board-2.bin. My problem is that I dont know how to read the board files and modify them because I do not know the encoding they use.

Also there have been some updates in the upstream linux-firmware repo. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=a87eb5f7bac0f70ade57da57d9126d14eee12336 and https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/tree/master/QCA6174/hw3.0 but they also do not help to get the wifi card working/recognized.

Also there is a guide how to port it to Linux https://developer.qualcomm.com/download/qca9377/wlan-bluetooth-linux-porting-guide.pdf

After copying the above http://www.killernetworking.com/support/K1535_Debian/board.bin to the following folder "/lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0", the wifi works flawless. Just the "board.bin" and "board-2.bin" in "/lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0" have to be deleted before.


This is the output of dmesg after replacing the board.bin with the one from killernetworking.com:

dmesg | grep ath
[ 4.513563] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: pci irq msi oper_irq_mode 2 irq_mode 0 reset_mode 0
[ 4.806988] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: qca6174 hw3.2 target 0x05030000 chip_id 0x00340aff sub 168c:3370
[ 4.806994] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: kconfig debug 0 debugfs 1 tracing 1 dfs 0 testmode 0
[ 4.807918] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: firmware ver WLAN.RM.4.4.1-00079-QCARMSWPZ-1 api 6 features wowlan,ignore-otp crc32 fd869beb
[ 4.876632] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: board_file api 1 bmi_id N/A crc32 70c38a29
[ 5.593731] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Unknown eventid: 118809
[ 5.596743] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Unknown eventid: 90118
[ 5.600688] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: htt-ver 3.47 wmi-op 4 htt-op 3 cal otp max-sta 32 raw 0 hwcrypto 1
[ 5.691843] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x0
[ 5.691845] ath: EEPROM indicates default country code should be used
[ 5.691846] ath: doing EEPROM country->regdmn map search
[ 5.691849] ath: country maps to regdmn code: 0x3a
[ 5.691850] ath: Country alpha2 being used: US
[ 5.691851] ath: Regpair used: 0x3a
[ 6.576740] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0 wlp1s0: renamed from wlan0
[ 7.403038] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Unknown eventid: 118809
[ 7.406042] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Unknown eventid: 90118
[ 184.060093] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Unknown eventid: 118809
[ 184.063109] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Unknown eventid: 90118

There is also a .zip files available https://www.killernetworking.com/killersupport/item/killer-drivers-inf which includes some .bin files for the QCA6174 (e.g. "qca61x4_1_1_2.bin" )

I am also not sure if it is exactly that Killer Card. How could I find out, which model it is exactly?

Also added this in the Ubuntu Bug Tracker, but I think it would be good to directly get it solved upstream.

If you need any help, terminal printouts, or testing something, please let me know.

best regards

Christian H.

[l***@mailbox.org]

Additional informations can be found here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1651779

In comment 1 I posted a possible soultion and .bin file and where I found it and why it should fit and in comment 2 some successfull tests with latest firmare from https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/plain/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/ and https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/tree/master/QCA6174/hw3.0

Post by l***@mailbox.org
Hello,
Output of dmesg on Surface Go fresh installed Ubuntu 18.10.
"[ 4.242132] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: qca6174 hw3.2 target 0x05030000 chip_id 0x00340aff sub 168c:3370
[ 4.242138] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: kconfig debug 0 debugfs 1 tracing 1 dfs 0 testmode 0
[ 4.243006] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: firmware ver WLAN.RM.4.4.1-00079-QCARMSWPZ-1 api 6 features wowlan,ignore-otp crc32 fd869beb
[ 4.308059] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: failed to fetch board data for bus=pci,vendor=168c,device=003e,subsystem-vendor=168c,subsystem-device=3370 from ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/board-2.bin
[ 4.309354] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: board_file api 1 bmi_id N/A crc32 ed5f849a"
There is a board.bin available directly from the vendor http://www.killernetworking.com/support/K1535_Debian/board.bin But I have no clue what the content of that file is, if somehting is missing etc.
The only thing which is missing is getting this added to https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/ath10k/boardfiles so the official board-2.bin. My problem is that I dont know how to read the board files and modify them because I do not know the encoding they use.
Also there have been some updates in the upstream linux-firmware repo. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=a87eb5f7bac0f70ade57da57d9126d14eee12336 and https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/tree/master/QCA6174/hw3.0 but they also do not help to get the wifi card working/recognized.
Also there is a guide how to port it to Linux https://developer.qualcomm.com/download/qca9377/wlan-bluetooth-linux-porting-guide.pdf
After copying the above http://www.killernetworking.com/support/K1535_Debian/board.bin to the following folder "/lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0", the wifi works flawless. Just the "board.bin" and "board-2.bin" in "/lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0" have to be deleted before.
dmesg | grep ath
[ 4.513563] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: pci irq msi oper_irq_mode 2 irq_mode 0 reset_mode 0
[ 4.806988] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: qca6174 hw3.2 target 0x05030000 chip_id 0x00340aff sub 168c:3370
[ 4.806994] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: kconfig debug 0 debugfs 1 tracing 1 dfs 0 testmode 0
[ 4.807918] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: firmware ver WLAN.RM.4.4.1-00079-QCARMSWPZ-1 api 6 features wowlan,ignore-otp crc32 fd869beb
[ 4.876632] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: board_file api 1 bmi_id N/A crc32 70c38a29
[ 5.593731] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Unknown eventid: 118809
[ 5.596743] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Unknown eventid: 90118
[ 5.600688] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: htt-ver 3.47 wmi-op 4 htt-op 3 cal otp max-sta 32 raw 0 hwcrypto 1
[ 5.691843] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x0
[ 5.691845] ath: EEPROM indicates default country code should be used
[ 5.691846] ath: doing EEPROM country->regdmn map search
[ 5.691849] ath: country maps to regdmn code: 0x3a
[ 5.691850] ath: Country alpha2 being used: US
[ 5.691851] ath: Regpair used: 0x3a
[ 6.576740] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0 wlp1s0: renamed from wlan0
[ 7.403038] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Unknown eventid: 118809
[ 7.406042] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Unknown eventid: 90118
[ 184.060093] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Unknown eventid: 118809
[ 184.063109] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Unknown eventid: 90118
There is also a .zip files available https://www.killernetworking.com/killersupport/item/killer-drivers-inf which includes some .bin files for the QCA6174 (e.g. "qca61x4_1_1_2.bin" )
I am also not sure if it is exactly that Killer Card. How could I find out, which model it is exactly?
Also added this in the Ubuntu Bug Tracker, but I think it would be good to directly get it solved upstream.
If you need any help, terminal printouts, or testing something, please let me know.
best regards
Christian H.

[wayne wayne]

Edit:

Maybe it is possible to get the matching "eeprom_ar6320_3p0_TX8_clpc.bin" directly from Qualcomm so that it can be updated if it also gets updated by Qualcomm.

Post by l***@mailbox.org
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1651779
In comment 1 I posted a possible soultion and .bin file and where I found it and why it should fit and in comment 2 some successfull tests with latest firmare from https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/plain/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/ and https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/tree/master/QCA6174/hw3.0

Post by l***@mailbox.org
Hello,
Output of dmesg on Surface Go fresh installed Ubuntu 18.10.
"[ 4.242132] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: qca6174 hw3.2 target 0x05030000 chip_id 0x00340aff sub 168c:3370
[ 4.242138] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: kconfig debug 0 debugfs 1 tracing 1 dfs 0 testmode 0
[ 4.243006] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: firmware ver WLAN.RM.4.4.1-00079-QCARMSWPZ-1 api 6 features wowlan,ignore-otp crc32 fd869beb
[ 4.308059] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: failed to fetch board data for bus=pci,vendor=168c,device=003e,subsystem-vendor=168c,subsystem-device=3370 from ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/board-2.bin
[ 4.309354] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: board_file api 1 bmi_id N/A crc32 ed5f849a"
There is a board.bin available directly from the vendor http://www.killernetworking.com/support/K1535_Debian/board.bin But I have no clue what the content of that file is, if somehting is missing etc.
The only thing which is missing is getting this added to https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/ath10k/boardfiles so the official board-2.bin. My problem is that I dont know how to read the board files and modify them because I do not know the encoding they use.
Also there have been some updates in the upstream linux-firmware repo. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=a87eb5f7bac0f70ade57da57d9126d14eee12336 and https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/tree/master/QCA6174/hw3.0 but they also do not help to get the wifi card working/recognized.
Also there is a guide how to port it to Linux https://developer.qualcomm.com/download/qca9377/wlan-bluetooth-linux-porting-guide.pdf
After copying the above http://www.killernetworking.com/support/K1535_Debian/board.bin to the following folder "/lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0", the wifi works flawless. Just the "board.bin" and "board-2.bin" in "/lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0" have to be deleted before.
dmesg | grep ath
[ 4.513563] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: pci irq msi oper_irq_mode 2 irq_mode 0 reset_mode 0
[ 4.806988] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: qca6174 hw3.2 target 0x05030000 chip_id 0x00340aff sub 168c:3370
[ 4.806994] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: kconfig debug 0 debugfs 1 tracing 1 dfs 0 testmode 0
[ 4.807918] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: firmware ver WLAN.RM.4.4.1-00079-QCARMSWPZ-1 api 6 features wowlan,ignore-otp crc32 fd869beb
[ 4.876632] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: board_file api 1 bmi_id N/A crc32 70c38a29
[ 5.593731] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Unknown eventid: 118809
[ 5.596743] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Unknown eventid: 90118
[ 5.600688] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: htt-ver 3.47 wmi-op 4 htt-op 3 cal otp max-sta 32 raw 0 hwcrypto 1
[ 5.691843] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x0
[ 5.691845] ath: EEPROM indicates default country code should be used
[ 5.691846] ath: doing EEPROM country->regdmn map search
[ 5.691849] ath: country maps to regdmn code: 0x3a
[ 5.691850] ath: Country alpha2 being used: US
[ 5.691851] ath: Regpair used: 0x3a
[ 6.576740] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0 wlp1s0: renamed from wlan0
[ 7.403038] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Unknown eventid: 118809
[ 7.406042] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Unknown eventid: 90118
[ 184.060093] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Unknown eventid: 118809
[ 184.063109] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Unknown eventid: 90118
There is also a .zip files available https://www.killernetworking.com/killersupport/item/killer-drivers-inf which includes some .bin files for the QCA6174 (e.g. "qca61x4_1_1_2.bin" )
I am also not sure if it is exactly that Killer Card. How could I find out, which model it is exactly?
Also added this in the Ubuntu Bug Tracker, but I think it would be good to directly get it solved upstream.
If you need any help, terminal printouts, or testing something, please let me know.
best regards
Christian H.