The device in use is an HP 845 G9 with an AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS with Radeon Graphics.
The wireless network card appears as Qualcomm FastConnect 6900 Wi-Fi 6E Dual Band Simultaneous (DBS) WiFiCx Network Adapter in Windows, and as Qualcomm QCNFA765 in Qubes OS.
The templates used in Qubes VMs include Debian 12 and Fedora 37, 41 When using the default drivers (the ones included during installation), the same error appears.
On Fedora, the following steps have been attempted to reinstall the driver:
sudo dnf install linux-firmware
sudo dnf reinstall linux-firmware
The firmware version in use is
sudo dnf list installed | grep linux-firmware
“linux-firmware.norach 1:20250211-1.fc37 @anacoda”
“linux-firmware-whence.norach 1:20250211-1.fc37 @anacoda” ,
and the available directories are:
/usr/lib/firmware/ath11k/WCN6855/hw2.1
/usr/lib/firmware/ath11k/WCN6855/hw2.0
dmesg | grep ath11k
[ 3.407581] ath11k_pci 0000:00:06.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0xf2000000-0xf21fffff 64bit]
[ 3.410292] ath11k_pci 0000:00:06.0: MSI vectors: 1
[ 3.410709] ath11k_pci 0000:00:06.0: wcn6855 hw2.1
[ 4.400111] ath11k_pci 0000:00:06.0: chip_id 0x12 chip_family 0xb board_id 0xff soc_id 0x400c1211
[ 4.400117] ath11k_pci 0000:00:06.0: fw_version 0x11088c35 fw_build_timestamp 2024-04-17 08:34 fw_build_id WLAN.HSP.1.1-03125-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-3.6510.41
[ 4.650786] ath11k_pci 0000:00:06.0: leaving PCI ASPM disabled to avoid MHI M2 problems
[ 5.673368] ath11k_pci 0000:00:06.0: failed to receive control response completion, polling…
[ 6.696443] ath11k_pci 0000:00:06.0: Service connect timeout
[ 6.696463] ath11k_pci 0000:00:06.0: failed to connect to HTT: -110
[ 6.696944] ath11k_pci 0000:00:06.0: failed to start core: -110
[ 6.906085] ath11k_pci 0000:00:06.0: ignore reset dev flags 0x4000
[ 7.013554] ath11k_pci 0000:00:06.0: ignore reset dev flags 0x4000
[ 17.064434] ath11k_pci 0000:00:06.0: failed to wait wlan mode request (mode 4): -110
[ 17.064482] ath11k_pci 0000:00:06.0: qmi failed to send wlan mode off: -110