Yeah this is extremely extremely frustrating. I cannot believe I paid $300 for a device that is so piss-poor right out of the box. The first time I noticed the issue with the 5G card not coming up, I removed it and put it into a debian netbook I have (Lenovo X120e) and it was detected fine and worked every boot. Then I suspected the actual TO board / card slot, which others have pointed out, don’t let the cards sit parallel with the board, so I reseated it a few times and tried minutely adjusting the angle of the card to ensure the slot pins and the card pads were dead on. Given that cz.nic was able to design this device from the ground up, there’s no excuse for the cards not sitting more properly in the slots, and it seems like they just made a poor choice with the standoffs and decided to just go with it versus doing it correctly.
I tried reflashing with the medkit image (which you will notice is dated November 7th – it’s now December 1, and there are several critical-path bugs reported on these forums so why the hell have these not been rolled up into a new restore image?)
I entered the bootloader and set my regdomain ( US ) but even seeding this info into the pre-boot environment hasn’t helped with the issue. On inspecting the serial console during boot there are error messages regarding the ath10k firmware files (will paste them at the of this reply) so I believe problem is a firmware issue, although I have tried another two versions of the ath10k firmware blobs that was linked to GitHub on another post I’ve seen on these forums reporting this issue.
CZ.NIC – you pulled in over a million dollars USD on this design-build project but you delivered a garage-sale quality device. Unacceptable. I should have known better than to trust a small software shop / TLD host to perform the job of and deliver a device on par with the other major manufacturers in the segment.
If you could at least roll up the current fixes from TO’s Foris, openwrt and the ath10k projects and provide us a new ‘medkit’ image that actually heals this device, I think we’d all appreciate it very much.
Thanks,
Sean
snip from serial console @ boot:
[ 13.011928] pci 0000:00:02.0: enabling device (0140 -> 0142)
[ 13.017963] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: pci irq msi interrupts 1 irq_mode 0 reset_mode 0
[ 13.194174] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/cal-pci-0000:02:00.0.bin failed with error -2
[ 13.204561] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: Falling back to user helper
[ 13.214435] firmware ath10k!cal-pci-0000:02:00.0.bin: firmware_loading_store: map pages failed
[ 13.230979] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: qca988x hw2.0 target 0x4100016c chip_id 0x043202ff sub 0000:0000
[ 13.240225] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: kconfig debug 0 debugfs 1 tracing 0 dfs 1 testmode 1
[ 13.249986] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: firmware ver 10.2.4.70-2 api 5 features no-p2p crc32 b722ec09
[ 13.299101] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/QCA988X/hw2.0/board-2.bin failed with error -2
[ 13.309570] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: Falling back to user helper
[ 13.319285] firmware ath10k!QCA988X!hw2.0!board-2.bin: firmware_loading_store: map pages failed
[ 13.328259] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: board_file api 1 bmi_id N/A crc32 bebc7c08
[ 14.458453] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: htt-ver 2.1 wmi-op 5 htt-op 2 cal otp max-sta 128 raw 0 hwcrypto 1
[ 14.544735] cfg80211: Regulatory domain changed to country: US