Nae haven'y tried yet, it's coming last as I want it/Arch to carry to boot loader. This bug with Mageia has kept me intrigued as well, if not frustrated LOL. I'll probably have to file one with Manjaro/Arch too, as last time I tried it it didn't work, and most still aren't including the driver for this thing.
The routine was, create the missing firmware directory:
Remove any ndiswrapper configuration (it didn't work):
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su -
password:
ndiswrapper -e netathrxThen:
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mkdir -p /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw2.1(and it was missing as this hardware was completely unsupported and still is really insofar as Linux in general goes)
Download the board.bin and firmware-x.bin from <some url, wherever he had me get it> and place them in the newly created directory.
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cp <whatever directory I had them in>board.bin /usr/lib/firmware/ath10k/hw/2.1
cp <whatever directory I had them in>firmware-x.bin /usr/lib/firmware/ath10k/hw/2.1Reboot.
If it still didn't work (and it didn't), try:
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echo "options ath10k_core skip_otp=y" >/etc/modprobe.d/ath10k.confReboot and see if it works.
Later in the bug, it was also download <some testing kernel from someplace on the web>, install it and see if that helps it to work.
We went through this routine several times until it did work.
However now, I'm about to try a new routine from the advisory and see if it works. Since this advisory also fixes security vulnerabilities that I was unaware of, I
have to install the updates. However as to if they'll still work for the wireless, we'll see, as the updates have the same kernel (number-wise) that Thomas gave me for the last try (and clearly it's not working right now). I've uninstalled it to take the one in the updates, as it may have other things that will help. I've downloaded them via Cygwin. Wish me luck. This advisory I believe, is strictly a Mageia one.
