Package: firmware-atheros Version: 20170823-1 Severity: normal Starting from linux 4.12, wifi silently stops working after the second WPA group rekeying (see #875362):
oct. 19 19:35:43 vicious wpa_supplicant[868]: wlp58s0: CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 14:cc:20:56:eb:94 completed [id=0 id_str=] oct. 19 19:35:43 vicious wpa_supplicant[868]: p2p-dev-wlp58s0: CTRL-EVENT- REGDOM-CHANGE init=COUNTRY_IE type=COUNTRY alpha2=FR oct. 19 19:44:10 vicious wpa_supplicant[868]: wlp58s0: WPA: Group rekeying completed with 14:cc:20:56:eb:94 [GTK=CCMP] oct. 19 19:54:10 vicious wpa_supplicant[868]: wlp58s0: WPA: Group rekeying completed with 14:cc:20:56:eb:94 [GTK=CCMP] As hinted by [0], updating the following firmware files[1][2] fixes the issue: /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/board-2.bin /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-6.bin [0]: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/ath10k/2017-August/010069.html [1]: https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/blob/master/QCA6174/hw3.0/board-2.bin [2]: https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/blob/master/QCA6174/hw3.0/4.4.1/firmware-6.bin_WLAN.RM.4.4.1-00065-QCARMSWP-1 -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing-debug APT policy: (990, 'testing-debug'), (990, 'testing'), (120, 'unstable-debug'), (120, 'unstable'), (105, 'experimental-debug'), (105, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, armhf Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) firmware-atheros depends on no packages. firmware-atheros recommends no packages. Versions of packages firmware-atheros suggests: ii initramfs-tools 0.130 -- no debconf information
