Qualcomm atheros - bad wifi

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i noticed that my wifi is pretty bad. Connected via LAN cable, various speedtests show good download speed (even a bit better that what i actually have 😀 ). Doing the same on my phone (connected via wifi of course) i get the same (good) results. But on my laptop via wifi, i only get about half the speed....

I have an atheros chip in my device, see result of inxi -N:

Network: Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath10k_pci

i found quite a few posts about issues with that bastard online, but nothing, that helped me (like disabling qos, wmm on router). It even seems to be a known issue with that kernel module:
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/ath10k, and there is a patch, which will eventually help!?:

Don't know, if that dmesg output is relevant:
7722.519823] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: unsupported HTC service id: 1536

can anybody help?

RaMa

Not sure on what kernel version you are, if you are on current, could you try installing LTS kernel, and if you are on LTS kernel could you try installing current kernel?

for example in a terminal: sudo eopkg install linux-lts

Setting bootmanager time-out to 5 or so, helps with choosing the kernel version, you can find more about that on this forum

in a terminal: sudo clr-boot-manager help might help too

in a terminal: man clr-boot-manager

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RaMa thanks for your answer. I'm on the current kernel and i've already tried your suggestion. On lts kernel, i didn't have wifi at all.......did not look further into this and went back to current.

RaMa

OK, it is not so clear to me for which version(s) of the kernel the patch is meant... but...

You could try it, maybe you only have to compile that ath10k_pci kernel module...

You need the kernel sources for that en the kernel headers all from the same version as your current kernel

To get some idea: https://intoli.com/blog/patching-a-linux-kernel-module/

Of course that is on another system, I just wanted to show the general idea

Also the patch command: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/unix_commands/patch.htm and https://www.thegeekstuff.com/2014/12/patch-command-examples

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nevermind. For only a few bucks i "second-hand-purchased" and replaced that "bastard" with an Intel 8265 NGW. No problems anymore, and now i'm full steam ahead 😁. Funny thing: When replacing the card, i realised, that its not a QCA9377 but a (Qualcomm Atheros) NFA435A. So it gets detected wrong (not only on solus by the way).

Problem "solved" - thread can be closed.