Hi Tobias,

I also bought a laptop some weeks ago with an atheros chipset that required qca9377 - exactly like yours

Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros Device 0042 (rev 30) -

and it took me 2 or 3 weeks trying all kinds of solutions, including compiling a new kernel, kvalo drives and others. None of them worked. Finally, I found a drive that a professor from India, I think, wrote then I installed a new kernel 4.0 and the drive and since then it has been working marvelously.
I even wrote to him to say thanks and got a good reply.
I run Siduction distro with their very updated kernel.

Try this:

Remove your drive and install this one. It is very easy. Just run the script. Then tell us if that worked for you.
Cheers and good luck...

https://github.com/ajaybhatia/Qualcomm-Atheros-QCA9377-Wifi-Linux

Vagner

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On 02/12/2016 10:30 PM, Tobias Predel wrote:
Hello,

I bought a new laptop from ASUS, Product Name E205SA and installed Arch Linux. 
Unfortunately, the included WLAN chipset from Qualcomm  (QCA 9377) doesn't seem 
to work well with Linux. Beside of being recognized, the driver/device 
functions normally for the first minutes after boot, but then the transfer rate 
is suddenly lowering from around 700 kbs to 200 kbs and less, making Internet 
unusable. After a while, it's recovering a bit but it seems to be random (like 
it's trying to sleep/power save mode?). This behavior occures for my home 
network as well as at my university's network. As wifi access wasn't a issue 
with the Windows 10 OEM installation, I guess that this might a 
driver/firmware/configuration problem.

dmesg indicates
[   13.401917] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x6a
[   13.403870] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
[   13.405919] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
[   13.407837] ath: Regpair used: 0x6a
and
[   11.267403] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: pci irq msi interrupts 1 irq_mode 0 
reset_mode 0
[   11.500220] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for 
ath10k/cal-pci-0000:02:00.0.bin failed with error -2
[   11.583900] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for 
ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/board-2.bin failed with error -2
[   13.394121] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: qca9377 hw1.0 (0x05020000, 0x003820ff 
sub 1a3b:2231) fw WLAN.TF.1.0-00267-1 fwapi 5 bdapi 1 htt-ver 3.1 wmi-op 4 
htt-op 3 cal otp max-sta 32 raw 0 hwcrypto 1 features ignore-otp
[   13.398452] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: debug 1 debugfs 1 tracing 0 dfs 0 
testmode 0
[   13.422666] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0 wlp2s0: renamed from wlan0

The firmware files were downloaded from the git repository 
<https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware>. In addition to that iwconfig gives 
me a high number of invalid miscs. I use kernel 4.4.1 (Arch Linux). ethtools -i 
wlp2s0 prints out

driver: ath10k_pci
version: 4.4.1-2-ARCH
firmware-version: WLAN.TF.1.0-00267-1
expansion-rom-version:
bus-info: 0000:02:00.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: no
supports-eeprom-access: no
supports-register-dump: no
supports-priv-flags: no

and lspci provides

02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros Device 0042 (rev 30)
        Subsystem: AzureWave Device 2231
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- 
<MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 315
        Region 0: Memory at 81000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA 
PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
                Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
        Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/8 Maskable+ 64bit-
                Address: fee0f00c  Data: 4163
                Masking: fffffffe  Pending: 00000000
        Capabilities: [70] Express (v2) Endpoint, MSI 00
                DevCap: MaxPayload 256 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s unlimited, 
L1 <64us
                        ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset-
                DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- 
Unsupported-
                        RlxdOrd+ ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
                        MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes
                DevSta: CorrErr+ UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq+ AuxPwr+ 
TransPend-
                LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency 
L0s <4us, L1 <64us
                        ClockPM+ Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot- ASPMOptComp+
                LnkCtl: ASPM L0s L1 Enabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- CommClk+
                        ExtSynch- ClockPM+ AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
                LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ 
DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
                DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Not Supported, TimeoutDis+, LTR+, 
OBFF Via message
                DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis-, LTR+, 
OBFF Disabled
                LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 2.5GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis-
                         Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, 
EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS-
                         Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB
                LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -6dB, 
EqualizationComplete-, EqualizationPhase1-
                         EqualizationPhase2-, EqualizationPhase3-, 
LinkEqualizationRequest-
        Capabilities: [100 v2] Advanced Error Reporting
                UESta:  DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- 
RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
                UEMsk:  DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- 
RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
                UESvrt: DLP+ SDES+ TLP- FCP+ CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- 
RxOF+ MalfTLP+ ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
                CESta:  RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr-
                CEMsk:  RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr+
                AERCap: First Error Pointer: 00, GenCap- CGenEn- ChkCap- ChkEn-
        Capabilities: [148 v1] Virtual Channel
                Caps:   LPEVC=0 RefClk=100ns PATEntryBits=1
                Arb:    Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128-
                Ctrl:   ArbSelect=Fixed
                Status: InProgress-
                VC0:    Caps:   PATOffset=00 MaxTimeSlots=1 RejSnoopTrans-
                        Arb:    Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128- TWRR128- WRR256-
                        Ctrl:   Enable+ ID=0 ArbSelect=Fixed TC/VC=ff
                        Status: NegoPending- InProgress-
        Capabilities: [168 v1] Device Serial Number 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
        Capabilities: [178 v1] Latency Tolerance Reporting
                Max snoop latency: 15360ns
                Max no snoop latency: 15360ns
        Capabilities: [180 v1] L1 PM Substates
                L1SubCap: PCI-PM_L1.2+ PCI-PM_L1.1+ ASPM_L1.2+ ASPM_L1.1+ 
L1_PM_Substates+
                          PortCommonModeRestoreTime=50us PortTPowerOnTime=10us
        Kernel driver in use: ath10k_pci
        Kernel modules: ath10k_pci

Could anyone give me a hint how I might fix this? Any help is greatly 
appreciated.

Regards,
Tobias

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