Boot media does not have Qualcomm Atheros driver... stuck

dman777 · Veteran Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 1004

I have a new laptop and I am using the livedvd choice edition for the boot media to do the install. The issue I am having is, there is no driver for the ethernet controller Qualcomm Atheros Device. I looked in dmesg and I believe it has something to do with the error message 'could not fetch firmware file 'ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-5.bin`. I am not certain of this, but taking a guess.

in ifconfig I see a wlap61s0, but I believe that is a wifi device(which doesn't work ether). I can't get a dhcpcd lease on it.

How can I get this new install if there the boot media does not have my network driver? Pretty stuck.

Here are photos of my console on my laptop screen with the device info:

https://imgur.com/a/MaJME

https://imgur.com/a/j0AE1

https://imgur.com/a/yMNIC
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charles17 · Advocate Joined: 02 Mar 2008 Posts: 3685

dman777 · Veteran Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 1004

Thanks, but what about the ethernet? Isn't the ethernet controller Qualcomm Atheros Device the ethernet driver? I would like to get the ethernet working for the install. The links above are for the wifi.
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jroth · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Aug 2017 Posts: 76

I recently suffered from this problem while installing Gentoo on my new laptop, which has one of these QCA6174 WiFi cards and no ethernet. The problem did appear to be lack of up-to-date firmware/drivers for the chip, and none of the links in this thread worked to fix it - I ended up having to install Gentoo via the "install from other linux" route and using the Ubuntu partition that shipped on the machine (Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition, ships with Ubuntu).

Is there a way to report this problem to the release engineering team so they could maybe update the liveDVD image to support newer WiFi hardware?

John R. Graham · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2018 1:29 am Post subject:

As far as I know, Release Engineering does not make the LiveDVDs: they are occasional enthusiast creations. You best best for up-to-date firmware is to use a contemporary Minimal Install CD or SystemRescueCd.

- John
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The Doctor · Moderator Joined: 27 Jul 2010 Posts: 2678

None that I know of. The LiveDVD is not that useful for Gentoo.

Use the SystemRescueCD. It is a Gentoo based distro designed for recovering data after a hardware failure and includes all the tools necessary for a Gentoo install. At one point in time there was discussion of abandoning the minimal CDs in favor of the SystemRescueCD.
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