Problem with wifi on new laptop

[Espryon]

The specs of the wifi with this laptop are (i.e. The Chipset):

Vendor & Model
Foxconn T77H456.20
1x1 BGN + BT 4.0
Foxconn T77H525.03 NFA335
1x1 BGN + BT 4.0

Chipset Broadcom BCM43142 Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565
Form factor Half-Mini Card
Frequency band 2.4 GHz
Protocols and
data rates
supported
BT:
1 Mbps, 2 Mbps, 3 Mbps for EDR
Wi-Fi:
802.11b - 1-11 Mbps
802.11g - 6-54 Mbps
802.11n - MCS 0 to 7 for HT20 MHz and HT40 MHz
Antennae Yes. Both AUX and MAIN are routed in the display assembly.
Feature ? Support for BT & WLAN Co-existence
RoHS Compliance
Low Halogen Compliance

The problem with this is that while the card looks like it was added via ifconfig on install, it wasn't configured. It remains unclear to me how to configure it when theres no "add wifi button" in the fault gui of Fedora22. I would appreciate any help anyone could give me.

From ifconfig:

enp2s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.124 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::2e60:cff:fe81:c209 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 2c:60:0c:81:c2:09 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 518 bytes 140600 (137.3 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 304 bytes 54584 (53.3 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 0 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 24603 bytes 12155240 (11.5 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 24603 bytes 12155240 (11.5 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

virbr0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.122.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.122.255
ether 52:54:00:a8:c3:7f txqueuelen 0 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

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Sysinfo:

http://paste.fedoraproject.org/237151/36840414

[Espryon]

lspci -vv:

http://paste.fedoraproject.org/237152/14353684

I have no idea how to configure this on fedora manually as I'm new to Fedora.

[stevea]

ifconfig 'works' but has been deprecated for years. ip link is a better choice.
Your ifconfig output is showing your wired enet (the realtek part)

You generally don't want to manually configure wifi, but will want to use NetworkManager.

--

Your wifi part is Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 (not Broadcom), and is very new and not supported with a Linux driver (afaict). Your device should have a PCI ids 168c:0042 and you should see that in the lspci -nnk output.

The 'wl' driver is for Broadcom and will certainly not work on your Qualcomm part.
If it's really claiming the device (see lspci -nnk driver and/or the dmesg output) this will interfere with any correct driver.

I expect that your part will get driver support (perhaps via the ath9k driver) at some time in the future. Until then these are your options.

Try ndiswrapper (wraps the Win driver) but I haven't used this in years.
or
buy a USB wireless to use for several months.
.

[Espryon]

Can I ask a followup question then?

I have a usb dongle but, it keeps crashing. I was wondering what would be causing this. Also I was wondering why my touchpad on this laptop keeps crashing also and sometimes doesn't immediately become available when I boot up. Tyvm in advance.

"Bus 001 Device 002: ID 7392:7811 Edimax Technology Co., Ltd EW-7811Un 802.11n Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8188CUS]"

Also I have windows drivers for the card in .inf format. I'm having trouble setting it up though. The Atheros one. I was wondering if you had any walk-throughs available.

[antikythera]

Oh dear, you really are having bad luck with adaptors. That usb realtek 8188cus chip is supported by the kernels but the modules are very buggy and pretty much useless. There is a fix being worked on which will be submitted to the kernel developers shortly and that 'should' be cross distribution. I am only aware of the ubuntu/mint patches on github at present though.

[Espryon]

Do you think the driver will be updated automatically in the next week or ...<insert time here> ?

[antikythera]

Your guess is as good as mine. The patch is written by a knowledgeable user who is submitting it to the Kernel Developers for inclusion. How long that process will take if it even gets approved I honestly couldn't tell you.

[stevea]

The QCA9377 appears to be more similar to the ath10k driver parts. Atheros generally writes the Linux kernel drivers for their parts, but it's hard to predict when they will get around to it. I don't see any recetn coments on the ath10k and ath9k driver maillists.

[rinfinity]

The QCA9377 is now working via a patched ath10k module provided by kvolo_at_qca.qualcomm_dot com. The backports have been made as well.

Here's what I did to get it working under Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) git
echo "options ath10k_core skip_otp=y" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/ath10k_core.conf
wget http://filebin.ca/2LVgpjSgiT56/backp...-11-05.tar.bz2
unzip backp...-11-05.tar.bz2
cd backports-ath10k-2015-11-05
make defconfig-ath10k
make
sudo make install
git clone https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware.git
sudo cp -r ath10k-firmware/ath10k/ /lib/firmware/
sudo cp -r ath10k-firmware/QCA9377 /lib/firmware/ath10k/
cp firmware-5.bin_WLAN.TF.1.0-00267-1 firmware-5.bin
Reboot

Problem is, I can't get it to work in Fedora (Yes, I've replaced 'apt-get' with dnf, "build-essentia" with the similar packages from fedora) and 'linux-headers' with kernel-headers. I can't get the backport to compile, as it says:

[whizkidraj@localhost ~]$ sudo dnf install make automake gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel kernel-headers-$(uname -r) git
[sudo] password for whizkidraj: 
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for whizkidraj: 
Last metadata expiration check performed 0:24:39 ago on Fri Nov 13 18:22:11 2015.
Package make-1:4.0-5.1.fc23.x86_64 is already installed, skipping.
Package automake-1.15-4.fc23.noarch is already installed, skipping.
Package gcc-5.1.1-4.fc23.x86_64 is already installed, skipping.
Package gcc-c++-5.1.1-4.fc23.x86_64 is already installed, skipping.
Package kernel-devel-4.2.5-300.fc23.x86_64 is already installed, skipping.
Package git-2.5.0-2.fc23.x86_64 is already installed, skipping.
Dependencies resolved.
================================================================================
 Package               Arch          Version                Repository     Size
================================================================================
Downgrading:
 kernel-headers        x86_64        4.2.3-300.fc23         fedora        987 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Downgrade  1 Package

Total download size: 987 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
kernel-headers-4.2.3-300.fc23.x86_64.rpm        288 kB/s | 987 kB     00:03    
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Total                                           211 kB/s | 987 kB     00:04     
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
  Downgrading : kernel-headers-4.2.3-300.fc23.x86_64                        1/2 
  Erasing     : kernel-headers-4.2.5-300.fc23.x86_64                        2/2 
  Verifying   : kernel-headers-4.2.3-300.fc23.x86_64                        1/2 
  Verifying   : kernel-headers-4.2.5-300.fc23.x86_64                        2/2 

Downgraded:
  kernel-headers.x86_64 4.2.3-300.fc23                                          

Complete!
[whizkidraj@localhost ~]$ echo "options ath10k_core skip_otp=y" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/ath10k_core.conf
options ath10k_core skip_otp=y
[whizkidraj@localhost ~]$ wget http://filebin.ca/2LVgpjSgiT56/backp...-11-05.tar.bz2
--2015-11-13 18:48:45--  http://filebin.ca/2LVgpjSgiT56/backp...-11-05.tar.bz2
Resolving filebin.ca (filebin.ca)... 23.23.121.233, 2406:da00:ff00::1717:79e9
Connecting to filebin.ca (filebin.ca)|23.23.121.233|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2666523 (2.5M) [application/x-bzip2]
Saving to: ‘backports-ath-2015-11-05.tar.bz2.1’

backports-ath-2015- 100%[=====================>]   2.54M   352KB/s   in 8.0s   

2015-11-13 18:48:54 (325 KB/s) - ‘backports-ath-2015-11-05.tar.bz2.1’ saved [2666523/2666523]

[whizkidraj@localhost ~]$ wget http://filebin.ca/2LVgpjSgiT56/backp...-11-05.tar.bz2
--2015-11-13 18:49:43--  http://filebin.ca/2LVgpjSgiT56/backp...-11-05.tar.bz2
Resolving filebin.ca (filebin.ca)... 23.23.121.233, 2406:da00:ff00::1717:79e9
Connecting to filebin.ca (filebin.ca)|23.23.121.233|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2666523 (2.5M) [application/x-bzip2]
Saving to: ‘backports-ath-2015-11-05.tar.bz2’

backports-ath-2015- 100%[=====================>]   2.54M   350KB/s   in 7.9s   

2015-11-13 18:49:51 (329 KB/s) - ‘backports-ath-2015-11-05.tar.bz2’ saved [2666523/2666523]

[whizkidraj@localhost ~]$ tar -vxf backports-ath-2015-11-05.tar.bz2
backports-ath-2015-11-05/
backports-ath-2015-11-05/Makefile.build
backports-ath-2015-11-05/Kconfig.sources
backports-ath-2015-11-05/net/
__edited out: irrelevant detail_
backports-ath-2015-11-05/backport-include/backport/leds-disabled.h
backports-ath-2015-11-05/COPYING
backports-ath-2015-11-05/Kconfig
[whizkidraj@localhost ~]$ cd backports-ath10k-2015-11-05
bash: cd: backports-ath10k-2015-11-05: No such file or directory
[whizkidraj@localhost ~]$ cd backports-ath-2015-11-05
[whizkidraj@localhost backports-ath-2015-11-05]$ make defconfig-ath10k
/--------------
| Your kernel headers are incomplete/not installed.
| Please install kernel headers, including a .config
| file or use the KLIB/KLIB_BUILD make variables to
| set the kernel to build against, e.g.
|   make KLIB=/lib/modules/3.1.7/
| to compile/install for the installed kernel 3.1.7
| (that isn't currently running.)
\--
Makefile:40: recipe for target 'defconfig-ath10k' failed
make: *** [defconfig-ath10k] Error 1
[whizkidraj@localhost backports-ath-2015-11-05]$ cd ..
[whizkidraj@localhost ~]$ sudo dnf groupinstall "Development Tools and Libraries"
Last metadata expiration check performed 0:29:18 ago on Fri Nov 13 18:22:11 2015.
Warning: Group 'Development Tools and Libraries' does not exist.
Error: Nothing to do.
[whizkidraj@localhost ~]$ cd backports-ath-2015-11-05
[whizkidraj@localhost backports-ath-2015-11-05]$ make defconfig-ath10k
/--------------
| Your kernel headers are incomplete/not installed.
| Please install kernel headers, including a .config
| file or use the KLIB/KLIB_BUILD make variables to
| set the kernel to build against, e.g.
|   make KLIB=/lib/modules/3.1.7/
| to compile/install for the installed kernel 3.1.7
| (that isn't currently running.)
\--
Makefile:40: recipe for target 'defconfig-ath10k' failed
make: *** [defconfig-ath10k] Error 1

What could I be doing wrong?

[rinfinity]

The following got the QCA9377 Qualcomm Atheros Device [168c:0042] working under Fedora 23:

sudo dnf install kernel-devel-$(uname -r) make automake gcc gcc-c++ git
echo "options ath10k_core skip_otp=y" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/ath10k_core.conf
wget http://filebin.ca/2LVgpjSgiT56/backports-ath-2015-11-05.tar.bz2
tar -vxf backports-ath-2015-11-05.tar.bz2
cd backports-ath-2015-11-05
make defconfig-ath10k
make
sudo make install
git clone https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware.git
sudo cp -r ath10k-firmware/ath10k/ /lib/firmware/
sudo cp -r ath10k-firmware/QCA9377 /lib/firmware/ath10k/
sudo mv /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-5.bin_WLAN.TF.1.0-00267-1 /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-5.bin

[injaon]

The link in the wget command is broken

wget http://filebin.ca/2LVgpjSgiT56/backp...-11-05.tar.bz2

Could you please upload it again?

Thanks

[n2supersymmetry]

Try this link

wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...0151120.tar.gz

The package there works ... probably a newer version. I ran the commands as suggested two posts above just now and my wireless is on after a reboot.