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Bug#877711: firmware-atheros: Wifi connection becomes unreliable after upgrade to 20170823-1

From Brian Tarricone <brian@tarricone.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject Bug#877711: firmware-atheros: Wifi connection becomes unreliable after upgrade to 20170823-1
Date 2017-10-23 22:20 +0200
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I'm seeing the same symptoms (with a "Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac
Wireless Network Adapter (rev 32)"), but it started with me on buster after
upgrading linux-image from 2.11.x to 2.12.x (2.13.x also has the same
issue).  It looks like 2.12 bumped the firmware API version used for this
chipset from 5 to 6, and there's a new firmware-6.bin (& board-2.bin)
available upstream (
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/
).

I grabbed the ath10k/QCA6174 directory (commit 4ebfab3 is the latest change
there) and that fixed the issue for me.  Looks like those were last updated
on 20170918, which is newer than the firmware-nonfree/firmware-atheros
package.

     -brian

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Bug#877711: firmware-atheros: Wifi connection becomes unreliable after upgrade to 20170823-1 Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org> - 2017-10-04 19:40 +0200
  Bug#877711: firmware-atheros: Wifi connection becomes unreliable after upgrade to 20170823-1 Brian Tarricone <brian@tarricone.org> - 2017-10-23 22:20 +0200
  Bug#877711: Latest upstream firmware resolves this issue Andrew McMillan <andrew@mcmillan.net.nz> - 2017-10-24 16:00 +0200

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