poor wifi connection -- Atheros QCA6174

Jan-Jan commented 5 years ago

1st off, thank you very much for this respin!!! Your boot cd works great.

However, I previously had Manjaro installed on my laptop and my wifi network worked properly throughout my house and my connection remained great. Now with Ubuntu my network works poorly unless I sit right next to the router. I've tried passing nohwcrypt=1 to the driver, disabling IPv6 via the network interface, and even setting the REGDOMAIN.

Is anyone else experiencing problem? What should I try next?

I'm posting it here because I thought the solution should become part of this respin.

lshw -C network results in

  *-network                 
       description: Wireless interface
       product: QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
       vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       logical name: wlp2s0
       version: 32
       serial: 9c:b6:d0:ea:91:73
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath10k_pci driverversion=4.19.0-041900-generic firmware=WLAN.RM.4.4.1-00079-QCARMSWPZ-1 ip=192.168.1.4 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
       resources: irq:140 memory:ed200000-ed3fffff

Jan-Jan commented 5 years ago

I have access to a Dell XPS 13 with Ubuntu and the same card, that works great.

  *-network                 
       description: Wireless interface
       product: QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
       vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:3a:00.0
       logical name: wlp58s0
       version: 32
       serial: 9c:b6:d0:fa:55:a3
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath10k_pci driverversion=4.15.0-45-generic firmware=WLAN.RM.4.4.1-00079-QCARMSWPZ-1 ip=192.168.1.5 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
       resources: irq:137 memory:dc000000-dc1fffff

The only difference I see is that the driverversion of ath10k_pci. This made me look at the kernel versions: the XPS 13 is on 4.15.0-45-generic (Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS) and the XPS 15 on 4.19.0-041900-generic (Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS).

I'll be trying to add an older kernel to the XPS 15 to see if that works better.

Jan-Jan commented 5 years ago

I've booted into 4.15.0-45-generic on my Dell XPS 15. The problem persists... :-(

stockmind commented 5 years ago

Have you found a fix for your issue? Have you tried to run the "update.sh" script?

Jan-Jan commented 5 years ago

Hi @stockmind, I've been unable to fix my issue. I've upgraded to 18.10, with no discernible improvement. I've run update.sh script, with no discernible improvement.

stockmind commented 5 years ago

What kernel are you using right now?

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Jan-Jan commented 5 years ago

4.19.0-041900-generic

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