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Bug#879184: marked as done (firmware-atheros: QCA6174 stops working on newer kernels after second group rekeying)

Your message dated Fri, 03 Aug 2018 12:26:37 +0800
with message-id <c340bf21d0bbb7f300f941ee0ae07143013073a0.camel@decadent.org.uk>
and subject line Re: Bug#877711: Latest upstream firmware resolves this issue
has caused the Debian Bug report #877711,
regarding firmware-atheros: QCA6174 stops working on newer kernels after second group rekeying
to be marked as done.

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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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Version: 20180518-1

On Tue, 2017-10-24 at 14:41 +0100, Andrew McMillan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I can confirm that Brian Tarricone's solution also works for me, and
> the latest firmware resolves the issue:
> 
> 
> I.e. this commit from the 9th October:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware
> .git/commit/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0?id=96a7402d4172f4786ee93dd9f7cb3f76e1a
> 8025e
> 
> "Update from a new firmware branch. This also fixes a regression with
> ath10k frequently disconnecting."

Therefore marking this closed in the new version of firmware-nonfree. 
Sorry this update took so long.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
For every complex problem
there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

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