On 10/09/2019, Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > (dropping stable list) > > Tom Psyborg <pozega.tomislav@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> According to this very old post >> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/ath10k/2013-July/000021.html >> seems like you've been misinformed on amount of these cards that were >> put out in the market. >> >> At least digipart only have >40000 units in stocks >> https://www.digipart.com/part/QCA9880-AR1A and other retailers >> probably few thousands more. >> >> With that large amount of cards I think it is justified to request >> firmware support for the chip. And probably a lot easier to make few >> firmware modifications than go hacking a bunch of API calls so it >> works with v2 firmware. > > I'm very surprised that QCA9880 hw1.0 boards are still available, after > six years. Did you confirm that it really is hw1.0 and not just some > mixup with hardware ids or something like that? Print on the chip clearly says QCA9880-AR1A. ID same as for v2 - 003C. > old hw1.0 firmware to see if it works. I don't know which fw blob version that is. I could not find it online. All files are v2 related. > > But if it's really is hw1.0 I doubt there will be any support for that. > I recommend to avoid hw1.0 altogether. > > -- > Kalle Valo > That would be too bad, even worse when you find out that qca-wifi-10.2.4.58.1 driver fails to load firmware too. The only one that works is qca-wifi that comes with tp-link firmware, some very early version 10.0.108 or somtehing like that that has no available sources..
