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I'm using Arch Linux (4.8.13-1) on an Acer Spin 5 notebook. WIFI is working, but there are some errors in dmesg | grep ath which I don't understand:

[ 2.269128] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: pci irq msi oper_irq_mode 2 irq_mode 0 reset_mode 0 [ 2.546004] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/pre-cal-pci-0000:01:00.0.bin failed with error -2 [ 2.546040] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/cal-pci-0000:01:00.0.bin failed with error -2 [ 2.556185] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: qca9377 hw1.1 target 0x05020001 chip_id 0x003821ff sub 105b:e0a1 [ 2.556192] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: kconfig debug 0 debugfs 1 tracing 0 dfs 0 testmode 0 [ 2.557620] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: firmware ver WLAN.TF.1.0-00267-1 api 5 features ignore-otp crc32 79cea2c7 [ 2.625627] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: board_file api 2 bmi_id N/A crc32 93da0176 [ 4.406204] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: htt-ver 3.1 wmi-op 4 htt-op 3 cal otp max-sta 32 raw 0 hwcrypto 1 [ 4.412611] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x69 [ 4.412613] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map [ 4.412614] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00 [ 4.412615] ath: Regpair used: 0x69

lspci -v shows this information about the network controller

01:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 31) Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device e0a1 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 280 Memory at b1000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: ath10k_pci Kernel modules: ath10k_pci

I would like to know how to fix this. I think this might solve some issues I'm having with the controller. I somehow cannot correctly connect to my Universitys WIFI. I thought this might have to do mith these errors which appear in dmesg. I tried NetworkManager, connman, wicd, netctl, and with all of them I could only get an IP-address in the network but no connection to the internet. Same with the Universitys eduroam network. I already tried lots of different configurations, but none worked.

This is the output of iwconfig

wlan0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"MY-WIFI" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 3C:7A:8A:F7:A2:C8 Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Power Management:on Link Quality=50/70 Signal level=-60 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:16 Missed beacon:0 lo no wireless extensions.

And iwlist scan | egrep -i 'ssid|cipher' gives me this

lo Interface doesn't support scanning. ESSID:"MY-WIFI" Group Cipher : CCMP Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP ESSID:"" Group Cipher : CCMP Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP ESSID:"20da86" Group Cipher : TKIP Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP Group Cipher : TKIP Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP ESSID:"0856e0" Group Cipher : TKIP Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP Group Cipher : TKIP Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP ESSID:"" Group Cipher : CCMP Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP ESSID:"\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00" Group Cipher : CCMP Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP ESSID:"20da86" Group Cipher : TKIP Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP Group Cipher : TKIP Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP
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  • What is the issue? Please edit the question to include what is wrong and results for iwconfig; iwlist scan | egrep -i 'ssid|cipher' Commented Jan 21, 2017 at 17:16
  • I just edited it. Commented Jan 21, 2017 at 17:43
  • I would try turning off power management with sudo iwconfig wlan0 power off and see if you can connect. Networks using TKIP are probably going to be problematic. I don't see any issue with the firmware as these devices only need a couple files, a firmware-4.bin or 5, board.bin and some have a board-2.bin Commented Jan 21, 2017 at 17:56
  • Okay, thank you, I'll try that. But do you have any idea what causes the error messages in dmesg? Commented Jan 21, 2017 at 18:11
  • The direct firmware load errors are normal for most users as they won't be using the wifi card as an access point. You could check cat /run/resolvconf/resolv.conf to see what it has for a nameserver listed as mine has always been 127.0.1.1 Commented Jan 21, 2017 at 20:05

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I little bit late for a party but I also had to connect to eduroam at some point of time and here is my config that works (for me at least):

Description='Eduroam Tartu Student Village' Interface=wlp8s0 Connection=wireless Security=wpa-configsection IP=dhcp WPAConfigSection=( 'ssid="eduroam"' 'proto=RSN WPA' 'key_mgmt=WPA-EAP' 'eap=PEAP' 'identity="<mylogin>"' 'password="<mypass>"' 'phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2 password=<mypassagain>"' )

And also I receive the same errors as you. Though it causes my wireless card to behave weirdly sometimes. After the last update it even fails to reconnect after waking up from a sleep.

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