My wifi has actually worked well until recently. I had put the files from kvalo/ath10k-firmware.git in /lib/firmware as per
No Wifi in Qualcom Atheros – Ubuntu 16.04 – Acer Aspire E 15 and Problems with Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 in Ubuntu 16.04 and others.
However, I still have major problems. Even plugging in a wifi dongle has issues, but one problem at a time – problem is definitely this device. The rest of the devices on my network are totally fine.
Running Ubuntu 16.10 on Acer Aspire V15 Nitro laptop.
jonathan@melange:~$ lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net; dmesg | grep ath10k
07:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [168c:003e] (rev 32)
Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [105b:e09d]
Kernel driver in use: ath10k_pci
Kernel modules: ath10k_pci
08:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 15)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [1025:1039]
Kernel driver in use: r8169
Kernel modules: r8169
[ 5.777028] ath10k_pci 0000:07:00.0: pci irq msi oper_irq_mode 2 irq_mode 0 reset_mode 0
[ 6.058560] ath10k_pci 0000:07:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/pre-cal-pci-0000:07:00.0.bin failed with error -2
[ 6.058568] ath10k_pci 0000:07:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/cal-pci-0000:07:00.0.bin failed with error -2
[ 6.061957] ath10k_pci 0000:07:00.0: qca6174 hw3.2 target 0x05030000 chip_id 0x00340aff sub 105b:e09d
[ 6.061959] ath10k_pci 0000:07:00.0: kconfig debug 0 debugfs 1 tracing 1 dfs 0 testmode 0
[ 6.062416] ath10k_pci 0000:07:00.0: firmware ver WLAN.RM.4.4-00022-QCARMSWPZ-2 api 5 features wowlan,ignore-otp crc32 4d458559
[ 6.128304] ath10k_pci 0000:07:00.0: failed to fetch board data for bus=pci,bmi-chip-id=0,bmi-board-id=0 from ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/board-2.bin
[ 6.129084] ath10k_pci 0000:07:00.0: board_file api 1 bmi_id 0:0 crc32 ed5f849a
[ 8.181802] ath10k_pci 0000:07:00.0: Unknown eventid: 90118
[ 8.181838] ath10k_pci 0000:07:00.0: htt-ver 3.32 wmi-op 4 htt-op 3 cal otp max-sta 32 raw 0 hwcrypto 1
[ 9.207221] ath10k_pci 0000:07:00.0: suspend timed out - target pause event never came
[ 9.292828] ath10k_pci 0000:07:00.0 wlp7s0: renamed from wlan0
[ 11.516595] ath10k_pci 0000:07:00.0: Unknown eventid: 90118
[ 14.579410] ath10k_pci 0000:07:00.0: failed to set rx-chainmask: -11, req 0x3
[ 17.651411] ath10k_pci 0000:07:00.0: failed to set arp ac override parameter: -11
[ 23.795416] ath10k_pci 0000:07:00.0: could not suspend target (-11)
[ 26.083746] ath10k_pci 0000:07:00.0: Unknown eventid: 90118
[ 29.171309] ath10k_pci 0000:07:00.0: failed to enable dynamic BW: -11
[ 35.315207] ath10k_pci 0000:07:00.0: could not suspend target (-11)
[ 37.602389] ath10k_pci 0000:07:00.0: Unknown eventid: 90118
[ 40.691216] ath10k_pci 0000:07:00.0: failed to set tx-chainmask: -11, req 0x3
[ 43.763273] ath10k_pci 0000:07:00.0: failed to set arp ac override parameter: -11
Best Answer
I think you may be suffering from a couple different issues. I want you to reinstall the Ubuntu package linux-firmware as that may be more up to date than kvallo's github site
A recent change to network manager enables wifi powersave by default, to disable this do
Reboot