Post-installation setup

This document contains extra steps to perform after installing Dasharo in order to enable full functionality.

Windows

This section covers Windows post-install steps tested on Windows 11.

Qualcomm Atheros cards may be missing driver

If you experience Windows to fail to recognize Qualcomm Atheros WiFi cards, you may need to install the necessary driver manually.

Download the Windows driver from ath-drivers.eu Using Device Manager, select Update Driver for Network Device located in Other devices and choose to install the downloaded driver.

Linux

This section covers Linux post-install steps tested on Ubuntu 22.04. It is likely that similar procedures would work for others Linux distributions as well.

Cards using ath10k_pci driver report a firmware failure at module load

If you experience ath10k_pci failing to load with error in dmesg similar to:

[   11.098547] ath10k_pci 0000:07:00.0: wmi unified ready event not received
[   11.148567] ath10k_pci 0000:07:00.0: device has crashed during init
[   11.176535] ath10k_pci 0000:07:00.0: device has crashed during init
[   11.176539] ath10k_pci 0000:07:00.0: failed to wait for target init: -70
[   11.177684] ath10k_pci 0000:07:00.0: could not init core (-110)
[   11.177711] ath10k_pci 0000:07:00.0: could not probe fw (-110)

follow the Protectli guide (Section "Fix for M.2/mPCIe WiFi Card not Being Recognized") to fix the problem.

VP66XX v0.9.2 - fans stuck at a constant speed

The v0.9.2 release shipped with an issue that caused the SuperIO CPU temperature reads to be stuck at a constant value, which in turn made the fans spin at constant speed. While this will no longer be the case in more recent releases, the issue can be mitigated on v0.9.2 by applying the reboot=pci kernel parameter in Ubuntu:

Run sudo nano /etc/default/grub
Modify the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line to contain reboot=pci, e.g.:

-GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
+GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash reboot=pci"

Run sudo update-grub
Reboot