Bug#877711: firmware-atheros: Wifi connection becomes unreliable after upgrade to 20170823-1

2017-10-23 Thread Brian Tarricone
I'm seeing the same symptoms (with a "Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 32)"), but it started with me on buster after upgrading linux-image from 2.11.x to 2.12.x (2.13.x also has the same issue). It looks like 2.12 bumped the firmware API version used for this chipset

Bug#877711: firmware-atheros: Wifi connection becomes unreliable after upgrade to 20170823-1

2017-10-04 Thread Andrew McMillan
Package: firmware-atheros Version: 20161130-3 Severity: important Tags: upstream After upgrading to firmware-atheros_20170823-1 my wifi becomes unreliable, working for approximately 5-15 minutes before stopping transporting packets to my access point. This issue is not sensitive to: - The model