Atheros QCA6174 ath10k_pci fimware crashing

[Cool Goose]

It does feel like a hardware issue, either the bus or the card. I had Windows dual boot on the laptop and even Windows is complaining of network issues.






On Monday, 25 September, 2023 at 12:14:02 pm GMT-4, Cool Goose <coolgoose54 at yahoo.in> wrote: 





Laptop model : Lenovo Flex 5, running Arch Linux since Dec 2019. No issues til around late 2022 when I would just disable wireless and reenable from GNOME system tray NetworkManager applet and then things would work fine. But for almost a couple of months, constant firmware crashes and device cannot be recovered even after disable-renabling wireless. If I remember correctly the transition to constant crashes coincided with me upgrading system, thus I am reporting here.

Just in case it helps, I tried looking for a small system journal from the laptop where the firmware crash was included, and posted that here. http://ix.io/4Hpr

I am trying to find out if this actually looks like a hardware failure becuase in that case I can call it non-recoverable issue and look for a wifi adapter.
If it is hardware failure, I am trying to find out if there are any card settings I can tweak in may be BIOS that would make it work in say a restricted mode.

Thanks.


On Monday, 25 September, 2023 at 06:15:27 am GMT-4, Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme at gmail.com> wrote: 





On 25/09/2023 17:08, Kalle Valo wrote:

> Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>> Sep 19 09:01:11 hostname kernel: ath10k_warn: 149 callbacks suppressed
>>> Sep 19 09:01:11 hostname kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: failed to wake target for read32 at 0x00036044: -110
>>> Sep 19 09:01:11 hostname kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: failed to wake target for read32 at 0x00036044: -110
>>> Sep 19 09:01:11 hostname kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: failed to wake target for read32 at 0x00036044: -110
>>>
>>
>> Looks like hardware issue, right?
> 
> It could be a hardware issue (for example a problem with the PCI bus
> communication) but also simply a firmware crash. These kind of reports
> come time to time but root cause is unknown.

> 

The reporter said on Arch Linux forum (see TS) that trying older
linux-firmware package doesn't help, so I suspect this as hardware issue.

Cool Goose, what is your laptop model?

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