[elrepo] kmod-ath10k firmware issues (?) with CentOS 7

[Phil Perry]

On 18/08/16 22:21, Sean Hancock via elrepo wrote:
> Two additional questions:
>
> can I verify I have put the firmware files in the right place:
> # pwd
> /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0
> # ls
> board-2.bin  firmware-4.bin
> board.bin     firmware-4.bin_WLAN.RM.2.0-001800QCARMSWPZ-1
>

Looks good to me.

> Also, the wiki ( https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath10k/firmware ) says for QCA6174, kernel version 4.0 is required (with the caveat that a newer ath10k drive can be used on an older kernel with backports project). How do I know what Kernel version I have (this may sound like stupid question, but I am new to linux) and would this cause the drive to not find the firmware?
>

The driver is backported from kernel-4.1, so consider it as that. You 
can ignore the caveat about the backports project.

> Sean
>