Wifi keeps dropping so often!

Greetings…
I’ve been using manjaro(KDE) for almost a year. Still can’t say i’m a pro. I never had any problems until 20 days ago. I remember that i had an update, and then my wifi keeps dropping. It is really worst, that it’s dropping like once in every 10 seconds. which is truely so annoying. I’ve been searching for a fix ever since but can’t find a solid workaround/relatable thread.

Here’s the dmesg log:

[ 1382.313663] wlp1s0: Connection to AP <mac address> lost
[ 1387.307580] wlp1s0: authenticate with <mac address>
[ 1387.341797] wlp1s0: send auth to <mac address> (try 1/3)
[ 1387.345545] wlp1s0: authenticated
[ 1387.346488] wlp1s0: associate with <mac address> (try 1/3)
[ 1387.357901] wlp1s0: RX AssocResp from <mac address> (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=1)
[ 1387.360588] wlp1s0: associated
[ 1396.647586] wlp1s0: Connection to AP <mac address> lost
[ 1401.677994] wlp1s0: authenticate with <mac address>
[ 1401.712543] wlp1s0: send auth to <mac address> (try 1/3)
[ 1401.716416] wlp1s0: authenticated
[ 1401.718379] wlp1s0: associate with <mac address> (try 1/3)
[ 1401.729955] wlp1s0: RX AssocResp from <mac address> (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=1)
[ 1401.732433] wlp1s0: associated
[ 1410.968920] wlp1s0: Connection to AP <mac address> lost

And here’s my kernel driver information from lspci:

01:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 31)
Subsystem: Dell Device 1810
Kernel driver in use: ath10k_pci
Kernel modules: ath10k_pci

Other informations:
- I’m using linux57 kernel… And i had the same problem with the linux419. So i did a freash install and the problem still stays. But i noticed, while live booting this wifi dropping issue doesn’t exist.
- Connecting to an ethernet or tethering with mobile using usb-cable gives me a solid connection.

-Thanks.

Since I see a bunch of mac stuff
(though that could just be coincidence)
lets disable mac randomization

echo -e "[device]\nwifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no" | sudo tee /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/disable-random-mac.conf
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That worked like a charm. Tested for an hour and a half. And not even a single drop.
Heartly thanks for the workaround.

hurrah. glad to hear it.

Uhm!. Hey there again…
I thought it was fixed, but it started to randomly getting disconnected again!!

I tried switching from NetworkManager to netctl… But i’m still facing the problem.

So is there any other way to troubleshoot this issue?

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