Killer N1535 Wireless Firmware Manual Update Guide for Ubuntu Systems

This article contains information about manually updating the Killer N1535 wireless firmware for Ubuntu.

Table of Contents:

1. Linux Firmware Package
2. Ubuntu: Killer N1535 Wireless

Linux Firmware Package

Linux-Firmware (w/ Killer N1535) Update Process.

Update your system with the following commands:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Note: To determine the current linux-firmware package available please vist: http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux-firmware

Ubuntu: Killer N1535 Wireless

Killer N1535 Manual Firmware Update Process

1.  In a terminal, confirm the QCA6174 with this command (Figure 1): sudo lspci | grep –i qca6174
   
   Figure 1
    
2. Download the latest firmware and extract the contents: https://codeload.github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/zip/master
3. Or you can download the ZIP and save it with the browser at this url as shown: https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware (Figure 2)
   
   Figure 2
    
4. Open the "Downloads" folder, then "right click" the "ath10k-firmware-master.zip" and "extract here".
5. Confirm the contents of the extracted folder as shown. You should see the "QCA6174" folder (Figure 3).
   
   Figure 3
    
6. Back in a terminal, type "sudo nautilus" to open a root privilege file manager (Figure 4).
   1. Sudo nautilus
   2. Click "computer"
   3. Click folder "lib"
   
   Figure 4
    
7. Navigate to the QCA6174 firmware directory (Figure 5).
   1. Click "firmware"
   2. Click to open "ath10k"
   3. Right click and "Delete" the "QCA6174" directory (we are removing everything).
   
   Figure 5
    
8. Navigate to your other file manager window where your extracted download folder is (Figure 6):
   1. Confirm your new source file location in Downloads/auth10k-firmware
   2. Confirm your new destination file location in ../firmware/ath10k
   3. Copy and paste the QCA6174 directory with all of its contents into the destination directory as shown. The path should be: /lib/firmware/ath10k/
   
   Figure 6
    
9. Open /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/HW3.0 and rename file: firmware-4.bin_wlan.rm.2.0-00180-qcarmswpz-1 To: firmware-4.bin (Figure 7)
   
   Figure 7
    
10. Now reboot and test the new Killer Wi-Fi firmware.

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