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the-loan-wolf

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Registered: 2023-07-16

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[SOLVED] Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 firmware crashing every 2 minutes

my wifi keep stopping and when get restarted its physical address change
here is the output of iwctl

ris@arch ~> iwctl
NetworkConfigurationEnabled: disabled
StateDirectory: /var/lib/iwd
Version: 2.7
[iwd]# device list
                                    Devices                                   *
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Name                  Address               Powered     Adapter     Mode      
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  wlan0                 36:7b:15:61:59:31     off          phy0        station    

dmesg output

[  435.002753] wlan0: deauthenticating from a8:e2:07:27:4b:dd by local choice (Reason: 3=DEAUTH_LEAVING)
[  435.035055] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: firmware crashed! (guid 4022b4f2-3af8-4c83-97d0-a5d828f22b72)
[  435.035080] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: qca6164 hw2.1 target 0x05010000 chip_id 0x003405ff sub 17aa:3545
[  435.035095] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: kconfig debug 1 debugfs 1 tracing 1 dfs 0 testmode 0
[  435.036161] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: firmware ver SW_RM.1.1.1-00157-QCARMSWPZ-1 api 5 features ignore-otp,no-4addr-pad crc32 10bf8e08
[  435.036744] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: board_file api 2 bmi_id N/A crc32 ae2e275a
[  435.036758] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: htt-ver 3.1 wmi-op 4 htt-op 3 cal otp max-sta 32 raw 0 hwcrypto 1
[  435.036906] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: firmware register dump:
[  435.036914] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: [00]: 0x05010000 0x00000000 0x0092E4DC 0xF3FC97F5
[  435.036925] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: [04]: 0x0092E4DC 0x00060130 0x00000018 0x0041A760
[  435.036935] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: [08]: 0xF3FC97E1 0x00400000 0x00000000 0x000A5C88
[  435.036944] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: [12]: 0x00000009 0x00000000 0x0096C09C 0x0096C0A7
[  435.036954] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: [16]: 0x0096BDBC 0x009287BD 0x00000000 0x009287BD
[  435.036963] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: [20]: 0x4092E4DC 0x0041A710 0x00000000 0x0F000000
[  435.036972] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: [24]: 0x809432A7 0x0041A770 0x0040D400 0xC092E4DC
[  435.036981] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: [28]: 0x80942BC4 0x0041A790 0xF3FC97E1 0x00400000
[  435.036989] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: [32]: 0x80947BA7 0x0041A7B0 0x00404D88 0x0040E074
[  435.036997] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: [36]: 0x809BDECC 0x0041A7D0 0x00404D88 0x0040E074
[  435.037005] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: [40]: 0x8099638C 0x0041A7F0 0x00404D88 0x00000000
[  435.037014] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: [44]: 0x80992076 0x0041A810 0x0044FD68 0x0046FFE8
[  435.037021] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: [48]: 0x80996BD3 0x0041A830 0x0044FD68 0x00000000
[  435.037030] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: [52]: 0x800B4405 0x0041A850 0x00422318 0x00005002
[  435.037038] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: [56]: 0x809A6C34 0x0041A8E0 0x0042932C 0x0042CA20
[  435.037047] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: Copy Engine register dump:
[  435.037058] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: [00]: 0x00034400   1   1   3   3
[  435.037075] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: [01]: 0x00034800  26  26 349 350
[  435.037091] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: [02]: 0x00034c00  10  10  73  74
[  435.037106] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: [03]: 0x00035000  31  31  31  31
[  435.037120] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: [04]: 0x00035400 1809 1809 202 138
[  435.037135] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: [05]: 0x00035800   0   0   0   0
[  435.037149] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: [06]: 0x00035c00   3   3   3   3
[  435.037163] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: [07]: 0x00036000   1   1   1   1
[  435.037280] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: failed to submit keepalive on vdev 0: -108
[  435.037294] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: failed to disable keepalive on vdev 0: -108
[  435.129569] ieee80211 phy0: Hardware restart was requested
[  436.439674] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: device successfully recovered

Last edited by the-loan-wolf (2023-07-17 08:35:43)

the-loan-wolf

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Registered: 2023-07-16

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 firmware crashing every 2 minutes

i found that i was using two network manager, 1st was networkmanager and the other was iwctl, both were fighting each other that's why wifi stops working, after uninstalling iwctl, rebooting and reconnecting through networkmanager cli (nmcli) now connection stays solid.

i didn't know that networkmanager can be directly used to connect to wifi, i thought that it is the main pkg to enable networking in arch and then i have to use another pkg to connect to WIFI.