Networking Updates For Linux 4.8, QCA9888 Added To ath10k

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Networking Updates For Linux 4.8, QCA9888 Added To ath10k

David Miller submitted the networking subsystem updates last week for the Linux 4.8 kernel...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...king-Linux-4.8

[Palu Macil]

Whenever networking is updated, I'm always excited to read about it even though I never know what any of it means.

[AJenbo]

I sat next to one of the guys working on XDGP

[starshipeleven]

Whenever networking is updated, I'm always excited to read about it even though I never know what any of it means.

athk10 is the driver + firmware blobs for Qualcomm-Atheros wifi ac cards and routers. They added support for a new chip of theirs, called QCA9888.

[wdb974]

Does anyone know about QCA9377? Or just how to know whether or not QCA9377 has been added to kernel 4.8? (Note that it might've been added even before. Last time I checked was with Ubuntu 16.04, so kernel 4.4 if I remember correctly).

[starshipeleven]

Does anyone know about QCA9377? Or just how to know whether or not QCA9377 has been added to kernel 4.8? (Note that it might've been added even before. Last time I checked was with Ubuntu 16.04, so kernel 4.4 if I remember correctly).

partial from kernel 4.4 or 4.5
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/ke...1aacb4a79c9614
now has also support for hw version 1.0 https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware

here more info on when the hw versions came out. https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2300861

[r1348]

Does anyone know a desktop PCI card that uses the athk10 driver? They all seem to be router products...

[Espionage724]

Does anyone know a desktop PCI card that uses the athk10 driver? They all seem to be router products...

Not exactly, but my Acer laptop (Aspire VN7-572G) has a QCA6174 which is on some kind of swappable card (it isn't MiniPCI-E; not sure what it is)

If I recall correctly, an old TP-Link card I had had some kind of Atheros chipset.

[wdb974]

partial from kernel 4.4 or 4.5
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/ke...1aacb4a79c9614
now has also support for hw version 1.0 https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware

here more info on when the hw versions came out. https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2300861

I'm asking 'cause I've been installing it manually since Ubuntu 15.04. I thought maybe 16.04 would work from the get go, but no dice. Perhaps 16.04.1 will...

(Note that I don't have access to this hardware anymore, so I can't test myself.)

[Espionage724]

I'm asking 'cause I've been installing it manually since Ubuntu 15.04. I thought maybe 16.04 would work from the get go, but no dice. Perhaps 16.04.1 will...

(Note that I don't have access to this hardware anymore, so I can't test myself.)

Not sure if the same issue is going on, but with my QCA6174, I had to update linux-firmware to 1.158 I think (whatever version 16.10 is using) for it to work.