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howto fix lenovo ideapad 320 wireless Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 drivers

howto fix wireless drivers for Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 on Lenovo Ideapad 320 running Debian9 Stretch

get the debian stretch firmware binaries

wget http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-atheros_20180825+dfsg-1_all.deb
dpkg -i firmware-atheros_20180825+dfsg-1_all.deb

This should create a directory /lib/firmware/ath10k containing all supported models for this driver

clone this guys firmware and copy just his firmware-5.bin to the hw1.0 root

git clone https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware.git
cp ath10k-firmware/QCA9377/hw1.0/CNSS.TF.1.0/firmware-5.bin_CNSS.TF.1.0-00267-QCATFSWPZ-1 /lib/firmeware/ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-5.bin

then copy the latest firmware-6.bin from the original QCA9377 into the hw1.0 root @ /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-6.bin

cp /lib/firmware/QCA9377/hw1.0/WLAN.TF.2.1/firmware-6.bin_WLAN.TF.2.1-00021-QCARMSWP-1 /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-6.bin

OR

you can just download my prepackaged version of the QCA9377 directory and copy it to /lib/firmware/ath10k/

mkdir /lib/firmware/ath10k
cd /lib/firmware/ath10k
wget https://github.com/charlmert/qca9377/raw/master/QCA9377.tar.gz
tar -xzvf QCA9377.tar.gz
rm -f QCA9377.tar.gz

Reload the driver

in one terminal watch dmesg output

dmesg -w | grep ath10k_pci

in another terminal reload the driver

rmmod ath10k_pci modprobe -v ath10k_pci