Wicd requires patch after update

kjhambrick · 03-17-2016, 08:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by allend

<<snip>>

@kjhambrick

Have you tried the 'skip_otp=y' option to the ath10k_core' kernel module? Post #6 at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=204871

Thanks for the link allend !

Yes I did but it did not fix the firmware issues.

However, that link is for a different card ( killer 1525 ).

Mine is a Killer 1535:

Code:

# lspci -v 

<<snip>>

3f:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 32)
        Subsystem: Bigfoot Networks, Inc. QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 141
        Memory at dc200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable+ Count=8/8 Maskable+ 64bit-
        Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
        Capabilities: [148] Virtual Channel
        Capabilities: [168] Device Serial Number 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
        Capabilities: [178] Latency Tolerance Reporting
        Capabilities: [180] L1 PM Substates
        Kernel driver in use: ath10k_pci
        Kernel modules: ath10k_pci

I finally found these links which got my killer 1535 working:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=208340

and ( same post && poster but as an Arch Linux blog entry )

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MSI_GT72-6QE

Each time kernel-firmware has been updated since my initial install on Feb 08, I have had to to overwrite the native firmware from kernel.org with the FireWalker Firmware to get my wireless back:

https://github.com/FireWalkerX/ath10.../QCA6174/hw3.0

In this case, the board-2.bin file overwrites /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/board.bin

I've been watching and there's a post today on an Ubuntu site that says my card is finally supported natively in kernel-firmware:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...3?comments=all

Waiting for Pat's next kernel-firmware Package ... maybe I'll finally be able to use the native kernel firmware without special handling<G>

Code:

# cat /home/dld/killer/install-these-for-killer-1535-wireless

# note to kjh:  this file is intentionally 'defanged'
#               execute the 'pounded' lines to restore wireless after a kernel-firmware update if wireless is down
#
# from:  https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=208340
# from:  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MSI_GT72-6QE
#
# wget https://github.com/FireWalkerX/ath10k-firmware/blob/7e56cbb94182a2fdab110cf5bfeded8fd1d44d30/QCA6174/hw3.0/board-2.bin?raw=true /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/board.bin
# wget https://github.com/FireWalkerX/ath10k-firmware/blob/7e56cbb94182a2fdab110cf5bfeded8fd1d44d30/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-4.bin_WLAN.RM.2.0-00180-QCARMSWPZ-1?raw=true /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-4.bin
#
# cp -p /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/board.bin      board.bin.orig
# cp -p /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-4.bin firmware-4.bin.orig
#
# cp -p board.bin      /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/board.bin
# cp -p firmware-4.bin /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-4.bin
# echo "`kjhdate` - kjh copied these from /home/dld/killer" > /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/kjh-was-here.txt

Wierd but true ... wicd works but NetworkManager does not.

Thanks again allend !

-- kjh

aaazen · 03-18-2016, 12:55 AM

Back to the original posting.

Earlier I said:

Quote:

Originally Posted by comet.berkeley

I tested the patch on wicd-1.7.4 but get fatal errors which cause wicd to crash.

Downgrading wicd to wicd-1.7.2.4 and urwid to urwid-1.0.1 works great!

My main problem is a keyboard input problem when using urid-1.3.0.
The patch, wicd-1.7.3-urwid-1.3.0.patch, does not fix the problem for me as the <ESC> key does not work at all with urwid-1.3.0.

So I downgraded urwid to urwid-1.0.1
and removed the wicd-1.7.3-urwid-1.3.0.patch from the wicd.SlackBuild script
and it works fine.

Code:

--- wicd.SlackBuild.orig	2016-02-08 13:21:23.000000000 -0800
+++ wicd.SlackBuild	2016-03-17 19:50:39.350964210 -0700
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 
 PRGNAM=wicd
 VERSION=${VERSION:-1.7.4}
-BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
+BUILD=${BUILD:-2}
 
 # Automatically determine architecture for build & packaging:
 if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
@@ -68,9 +68,6 @@
   msgfmt -o translations/$(basename ${pofile} .po)/LC_MESSAGES/wicd.mo ${pofile}
 done
 
-# Thanks to ArchLinux
-zcat $CWD/wicd-1.7.3-urwid-1.3.0.patch.gz | patch -p0 || exit 1
-
 python setup.py configure \
   --lib=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/wicd \
   --kdedir=/usr/share/autostart \

Now I can test wicd-1.7.4 with the top posters recommended curses_bitrate_fix.patch and see if it works.

aaazen · 03-18-2016, 02:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by foobaru

Wicd crashes when attempting to alter wireless ESSID properties (when you arrow over on a wireless id in the curses menu for instance).

This is a known issue and a patch has been provided courtesy of the people over at Void Linux.

https://github.com/voidlinux/void-pa...a3e4e031037edf

I've already tested and verified that the patch works with my Slackware64 setup.

I tested the patch and see no ill effects.

My test environment:
urwid-1.0.1-x86_64-1 - recompiled from source/l in Slackware 14.1 (might work with 1.0.3?)
wicd-1.7.4-x86_64-2 - Patched with curses_bitrate_fix.patch and wicd-1421918.patch

Here is the diff of my wicd-1.7.4 SlackBuild from current:

Code:

--- wicd.SlackBuild.orig	2016-02-08 13:21:23.000000000 -0800
+++ wicd.SlackBuild	2016-03-18 11:55:10.025726524 -0700
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 
 PRGNAM=wicd
 VERSION=${VERSION:-1.7.4}
-BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
+BUILD=${BUILD:-2}
 
 # Automatically determine architecture for build & packaging:
 if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
@@ -69,7 +69,8 @@
 done
 
 # Thanks to ArchLinux
-zcat $CWD/wicd-1.7.3-urwid-1.3.0.patch.gz | patch -p0 || exit 1
+cat $CWD/curses_bitrate_fix.patch | patch -p0 || exit 1
+cat $CWD/wicd-1421918.patch | patch -p0 || exit 1
 
 python setup.py configure \
   --lib=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/wicd \

Patches taken from ArchLinux:
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.g...h=wicd-patched

________________________________________________________________________
2015-09-17 17:57 UTC Update
urwid-1.0.3 works too

Is any other Python program in Slackware using urwid?

Tonus · 03-24-2016, 02:17 AM

Hi, just to make it clear :

Here's the patch I used :
void-packages/srcpkgs/wicd/patches/curses_bitrate_fix.patch

Code:

--- curses/netentry_curses.py	2015-02-15 18:29:05.000000000 +0100
+++ curses/netentry_curses.py	2015-02-15 18:31:24.000000000 +0100
@@ -538,11 +538,12 @@
         self.bitrates = wireless.GetAvailableBitrates()
         self.bitrates.append('auto')
         self.bitrate_combo.set_list(self.bitrates)
-        self.bitrate_combo.set_focus(
-            self.bitrates.index(
-                wireless.GetWirelessProperty(networkID, 'bitrate')
+        if wireless.GetWirelessProperty(networkID, 'bitrate'):
+            self.bitrate_combo.set_focus(
+                self.bitrates.index(
+                    wireless.GetWirelessProperty(networkID, 'bitrate')
+                )
             )
-        )
         self.allow_lower_bitrates_chkbox.set_state(
             to_bool(self.format_entry(networkID, 'allow_lower_bitrates'))
         )

I applied it without recompiling.

Then used the urwid slackbuild to upgrade to 1.3.1

I will retry with clean builds of the packages as soon as I have time to build a fresh image of RC1. If it doesn't work I will give a try to your solution.

Regards

aaazen · 03-24-2016, 07:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tonus

Here's the patch I used :
void-packages/srcpkgs/wicd/patches/curses_bitrate_fix.patch

Code:

--- curses/netentry_curses.py	2015-02-15 18:29:05.000000000 +0100
+++ curses/netentry_curses.py	2015-02-15 18:31:24.000000000 +0100
@@ -538,11 +538,12 @@
         self.bitrates = wireless.GetAvailableBitrates()
         self.bitrates.append('auto')
         self.bitrate_combo.set_list(self.bitrates)
-        self.bitrate_combo.set_focus(
-            self.bitrates.index(
-                wireless.GetWirelessProperty(networkID, 'bitrate')
+        if wireless.GetWirelessProperty(networkID, 'bitrate'):
+            self.bitrate_combo.set_focus(
+                self.bitrates.index(
+                    wireless.GetWirelessProperty(networkID, 'bitrate')
+                )
             )
-        )
         self.allow_lower_bitrates_chkbox.set_state(
             to_bool(self.format_entry(networkID, 'allow_lower_bitrates'))
         )

I applied it without recompiling.

foobaru pointed to the Void Linux link for the patch: https://github.com/voidlinux/void-pa...a3e4e031037edf

I found a copy of the patch at Arch Linux: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.g...h=wicd-patched

I include the patch in my builds and I see no bad effects.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tonus

Then used the urwid slackbuild to upgrade to 1.3.1

I will retry with clean builds of the packages as soon as I have time to build a fresh image of RC1. If it doesn't work I will give a try to your solution.

To try your way, I changed urwid.SlackBuild and created a urwid-1.3.1 package and installed it.

Then I changed the wicd.SlackBuild script to use wicd-1.7.4.
The script already includes the wicd-1.7.3-urwid-1.3.0.patch and I added the curses_bitrate_fix.patch.
Then I rebuilt and installed the new wicd-1.7.4 package.

It works somewhat ... but every time I exit wicd-curses I get a program error:

Code:

#wicd-curses
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 1146, in call_update_ui
    self.update_ui(True)
  File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 97, in wrapper
    return func(*args, **kargs)
  File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 1159, in update_ui
    self.handle_keys(input_data)
  File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 1128, in handle_keys
    k = self.frame.keypress(self.size, k)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/urwid/container.py", line 1128, in keypress
    return self.body.keypress( (maxcol, remaining), key )
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/urwid/container.py", line 1587, in keypress
    key = self.focus.keypress(tsize, key)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/urwid/decoration.py", line 836, in keypress
    return self._original_widget.keypress((maxcol,), key)
  File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 474, in keypress
    key = ComboBox.keypress(self, size, key)
  File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/curses_misc.py", line 497, in keypress
    return self._w.keypress(size, key)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/urwid/container.py", line 2269, in keypress
    key = w.keypress((mc,) + size[1:], key)
AttributeError: 'Text' object has no attribute 'keypress'

I get the same error and the program exits every time I delete a connection using the letter 'D'.

The <ESC> key does not work either.