[elrepo] ath10k

[Nicolas Thierry-Mieg]

On 09/20/2016 05:29 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
> On 20/09/16 14:29, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I bought a new laptop for my son, an Acer Aspire E5-575G-55DE, and
>> installed Centos 7 on it.
>> The wireless is:
>> $ lspci -nn | grep Network
>> 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros Device [168c:0042]
>> (rev 31)
>>
>> The driver for this is ath10k, so I tried installing kmod-ath10k and
>> ath10k-firmware from elrepo, but no joy: both of these are too old.
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> Hi Nicolas,
>
> Many thanks for the feedback.
>
> The wireless stack in RHEL7.2 is backported from kernel-4.1. As such we
> are pretty much bound to backporting wireless drivers to match the
> wireless stack, so the current kmod-ath10k driver is backported from
> kernel-4.1.x.
>
> If this driver doesn't support your device, we could look at backporting
> support for that device to the 4.1.x tree driver.
>
> Firmwares can be tricky as they can be version specific, and thus
> dependant on the driver version. If we know what files are needed then
> we aim to package them.
>
> But at this point it all may be a little academic as I note RHEL7.3 will
> contain the ath10k driver backported from kernel-4.7 so we will be
> deprecating our kmod-ath10k package in favour of the distro kernel driver:
>
> [phil at Quad RHEL7.3beta]$ rpm -qlp kernel-3.10.0-493.el7.x86_64.rpm |
> grep ath10
> /lib/modules/3.10.0-493.el7.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k
> /lib/modules/3.10.0-493.el7.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/ath10k_core.ko
>
> /lib/modules/3.10.0-493.el7.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/ath10k_pci.ko
>
>
> So at this point I'd say if you can carry on using kernel-lt until 7.3
> is released, your device should then be natively supported.


Thanks for your quick reply. That's great news! I'll just wait for 7.3.