Hmm. I have kernel 4.14.7 and linux-firmware 20171206. I tried version 999999999 as well, but that didn't help matters, either. Nor did compiling the firmware into the kernel; either 4.14 is too old, or it is too new. I tried copying the firmware my live iso was using, but that didn't help either.
On 12/17/17, Andrey Utkin <andrey_ut...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 12:34:14AM -0500, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have an ath10k_pci device that I'm trying to get hooked to the >> Internet, but I'm having some strange issues. It is trying to load the >> 2.1 firmware, but I don't think that is the proper firmware for the >> interface to have; I think it ought to be loading the 3.0 module, but >> am not quite sure on that either, or how I could go about injecting >> that into the modprobe; I wasn't able to pinpoint the firmware blob >> the ISO was using, so that wasn't much of a pointer in the right >> direction either. I see that the 3.0 blob does exist in >> /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCABLEFAGD/HW3.0, but there are many bin files, > > I have little to no idea about your actual case... But could it be that > you have a recent linux-firmware package (which provides /lib/firmware/ > files) and not recent enough kernel? I think kernel is what decides > which firmware file to load. >
