ath11k-firmware VS komorebi

Format the USB and clone ath11k-firmware (this commit worked for me) onto it

Background- I recently bought a Honor magicbook 14 laptop. I installed Manjaro/XFCE on it as I have been using Manjaro for around a year and like it. Everything seems fine apart from the wi-fi network adapter (Qualcomm QCNFA765 Wireless Network Adapter) which uses the ATHK11 driver which for whatever reason was lacking a "board file" that would allow Manjaro to recognize my wireless network adapter. Other people have had this problem (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215625) and an amended driver was posted on git. (https://github.com/kvalo/ath11k-firmware).

Wifi and Bluetooth weren't working on the default Manjaro installation. I tried multiple kernel versions and Qualcomm's drivers from https://github.com/kvalo/ath11k-firmware/blob/master/WCN6855/hw2.0/board-2.bin. In some versions, either Bluetooth or Wifi was working, not both. Finally, I settled on experimental kernel 6.0.0rc7-1, where Bluetooth turns on and HW is detected, but still, I'm having issues with Bluetooth headphone connectivity. Please let me know if someone has a solution to this.

doesn't seem to be supported yet: https://github.com/kvalo/ath11k-firmware

I have a 9310 32gb model with the ax500. With a 5.17 kernel and the WLAN.HST.1.0.1-05266-QCAHSTSWPLZ_V2_TO_X86-1 ath11k firmware, the machine has been flawless. Well maybe not the fingerprint reader.. i installed some updates and that broke but I never really used it so I haven't bothered trying to fix it.

https://github.com/kvalo/ath11k-firmware/tree/master/QCA6390

You need to compile a kernel with some patches, or use kernel >= 5.13. And source firmware for it from here: https://github.com/kvalo/ath11k-firmware/tree/master/QCN9074/hw1.0/testing

I love seeing whenever this is (re)posted.

This article had such a huge impact on my life and led to me creating many pieces of software[1][2][3] that were hyper-specific to myself and my needs at the time, which also later found an audience in others who think and work in ways similar to me.

[1]: https://notado.app - a "content-first" internet bookmarking and highlighting service which has been my second brain since 2020 after growing frustrated with Instapaper, Pinboard and Readwise. Eventually I expanded this to allow for RSS feed publishing on specific topics in an attempt to solve the "firehose" problem when following other peoples' bookmarks/shares, and at the end of last year I added what is now my most used feature of image generation from highlights for sharing on image-first/text-hostile social media platforms.

[2]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi - tiling window manager for Windows. There wasn't really anything fit for purpose on Windows when I started, and I was too spoiled by bspwm and yabai on Linux and macOS that I just had to write something before I could become a truly productive Windows user. I'm astonished that this now has 50k+ downloads.

[3]: https://kulli.sh - I use this to aggregate comments from HN/Reddit/Lemmy/Lobsters on an article I'm interests in in one place to read. This has helped me find some interesting niche communities on Reddit and Lemmy who share and discuss things I'm interested in that I otherwise wouldn't have found.

It's very heartening to see all of the stories here.

I've put the last few years of my life into working on komorebi, a tiling window manager for Windows[1], https://notado.app, a content-first social bookmarking service, and https://kulli.sh, a "bring your own links" comment aggregator which shows you comments from hn, reddit, lobsters, lemmy etc. on an article all in one place.

Unfortunately I was laid off after 5 years with the same company last month, and nobody seems to care about any of these projects when it comes to recruiting. There are people who use them that have reached out to me very kindly offering to make referrals, but the job market values LeetCode more than shipping real code these days.

[1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi

In the spirit of full disclosure, I wanted to share that throughout the changeset of this refactor which included 11 files changed, 597 insertions, and 133 deletions (full diff here), a single regression was found due to a logic error I introduced.

The two biggest tiling window manager projects for Windows are komorebi and GlazeWM. Komorebi is probably faster and more resource efficient since it is written in Rust, but I stick with Glaze for now since it has a cool status bar built in I like.

Not too many options for Windows OS, but this one looks decent: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi.

It's been a while since I last posted here. Since my last post, komorebi passed 3k stars on GitHub, became the most starred Windows twm of all time (surpassing bug.n!) and crossed 20k downloads.