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0005065Kali LinuxFeature Requestspublic2019-09-04 12:35
ReporterMithilMajumder Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
Status closedResolutionsuspended 
Product Version2018.4 
Summary0005065: Add Firmware & Driver support for QCA9377 [rev 30]
Description

The Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 Wireless driver is not installed properly since I am using Kali linux 2018.1 please add proper firmware and drivers for QCA9377. There are many issues in github about this wireless firmware but none of them works. Please update kali linux with latest wireless firmware & drivers.

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has duplicate 0005071 closedrhertzog Monitor mode not working for Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 Wireless Adapter 

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steev

steev

2018-11-07 20:39

manager   ~0009916

Can you link to which GitHub you're talking about when you say many issues about it on GitHub?

MithilMajumder

MithilMajumder

2018-11-08 01:35

reporter   ~0009918

There a developer named kvalo has added the firmware support for debian based linux, but unfortunately Kali linux doesn't contains all of those driver packages. Here is your link (GitHub)

https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware

Conder

Conder

2018-11-11 01:00

reporter   ~0009941

It seems that the bug is directly in the Linux kernel firmware images.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git

Monitor mode doesnt work on QCA9377 since this firmware update:
2018-02-15 | ath10k: QCA9377 hw1.0: update firmware-5.bin to WLAN.TF.1.0-00002-QCATFSWPZ-5
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0?id=56e5de3261877e5ca9df285e0751368c72b0861a

The reason why it works on Kali Linux 2018.1 (and also on 2018.2 and 2018.3) is that Kali Linux had firmware-nonfree 20170823-1 in repository until 2018-08-18, when the package was updated to version 20180518-1, which already contains the updated but bugged QCA9337 firmware as I mentioned above.
https://pkg.kali.org/pkg/firmware-nonfree

Duplicite of this bug report:
https://bugs.kali.org/view.php?id=5071

Related Debian bug report:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=903437

MithilMajumder

MithilMajumder

2018-11-11 12:35

reporter   ~0009942

Can't you still see any bugs in Kali Linux 2018.4 yet?
A bugged firmware update is containting since Kali Linux 2018.1 because there is no sufficient non-free firmware I mean latest firmware is included for Qualcomm Atheros QCA9337 Wireless AdapterLinux So I hope that the problem will be fixed in the future releases of Kali linux. I also hope that Kali Linux 2019.1 will be a great OS with all the latest updated non-free firmwares for Wireless Adapters & it is important to fi the kernel issues for Wireless Adapters in Kali Linux 2019.1

steev

steev

2018-11-26 16:49

manager   ~0010018

Last edited: 2018-11-26 16:50

We do not modify the firmware package ourselves, so the upstream (Debian) bug will be the one to watch.

One thing that could help, since you have the hardware to test the firmware - is subscribing to the Debian bug and testing the latest firmware from https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/ You can clone the repo and then copy the files into the correct place and test that they work. And then report to that bug address (it's as simple as sending an email) that it does or doesn't work for you, so they can update the firmware package.

g0tmi1k

g0tmi1k

2019-09-04 12:35

administrator   ~0010959

Due to the age of the OS (Kali Moto [v1], Kali Safi [v2], Kali Rolling <= 2018.4), these legacy versions are no longer supported.
We will be closing this ticket due to inactivity.

Please could you see if you are able to replicate this issue with the latest version of Kali Linux - https://www.kali.org/downloads/)?

If you are still facing the same problem, feel free to re-open the ticket. If you choose to do this, could you provide more information to the issue you are facing, and also give information about your setup?
For more information, please read: https://kali.training/topic/filing-a-good-bug-report/

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2018-11-01 20:10 MithilMajumder New Issue
2018-11-02 00:39 MithilMajumder File Added: Screencast_11-02-2018_12:36:20 AM.webm
2018-11-06 13:38 g0tmi1k Category Kali Package Improvement => Feature Requests
2018-11-07 20:39 steev Note Added: 0009916
2018-11-08 01:35 MithilMajumder Note Added: 0009918
2018-11-11 01:00 Conder Note Added: 0009941
2018-11-11 12:35 MithilMajumder Note Added: 0009942
2018-11-17 08:22 rhertzog Relationship added has duplicate 0005071
2018-11-26 16:49 steev Note Added: 0010018
2018-11-26 16:50 steev Note Edited: 0010018
2019-09-04 12:35 g0tmi1k Status new => closed
2019-09-04 12:35 g0tmi1k Resolution open => suspended
2019-09-04 12:35 g0tmi1k Note Added: 0010959