Re: [gentoo-user] Loading a Firmware Module By hand?

[Andrey Utkin <andrey_utkin@gentoo.org>]

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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.

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