5GHz WLAN becomes unavailable

Hi everybody,
the last days my Qualcomm Atheros QCA9880 802.11bgnac WLAN interface becomes (randomly?) unavailable. For months everything with the 5Ghz WLAN worked fine and the radio0 WLAN was permanently available. The WLAN shuts down, while 2.4GHz WLAN is still working. I rebooted Omnia and the 5GHz WLAN was available after reboot. Also Disabling/Enabling the radio0 interface with Lucie “solves” the problem. I don’t have any idea whether this might be a hard- or software problem.
Any idea about diagnostics or experiences with this strange behavior?
Best regards
Harald

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I’m experiencing similar problems from 3.7.3.
Sometimes it does not show in Foris either.

In my case the ath10k firmware does not load most of the times.
If I reboot using the reboot command the firmware won’t load. I had to power cycle it.

2017-08-17T06:16:41-07:00 info kernel: [ 22.037941]
ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: pci irq msi oper_irq_mode 2 irq
_mode 0 reset_mode 0
2017-08-17T06:16:41-07:00 warning kernel: [ 22.21331
5] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath
10k/pre-cal-pci-0000:02:00.0.bin failed with error -2
2017-08-17T06:16:41-07:00 warning kernel: [ 22.22405
2] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: Falling back to user helper
2017-08-17T06:16:41-07:00 err kernel: [ 22.233791] f
irmware ath10k!pre-cal-pci-0000:02:00.0.bin: firmware_lo
ading_store: map pages failed
2017-08-17T06:16:41-07:00 warning kernel: [ 22.24291
8] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath
10k/cal-pci-0000:02:00.0.bin failed with error -2
2017-08-17T06:16:41-07:00 warning kernel: [ 22.25330
9] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: Falling back to user helper
2017-08-17T06:16:41-07:00 err kernel: [ 22.262918] f
irmware ath10k!cal-pci-0000:02:00.0.bin: firmware_loadin
g_store: map pages failed
2017-08-17T06:16:41-07:00 info kernel: [ 22.280423]
ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: qca988x hw2.0 target 0x4100016c
chip_id 0x043202ff sub 0000:0000
2017-08-17T06:16:41-07:00 info kernel: [ 22.289694]
ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: kconfig debug 0 debugfs 1 traci
ng 0 dfs 1 testmode 1
2017-08-17T06:16:41-07:00 info kernel: [ 22.299314]
ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: firmware ver 10.2.4.70.54 api 5
features no-p2p,raw-mode,mfp crc32 9d340dd9
2017-08-17T06:16:41-07:00 warning kernel: [ 22.34965
1] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath
10k/QCA988X/hw2.0/board-2.bin failed with error -2
2017-08-17T06:16:41-07:00 warning kernel: [ 22.36012
2] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: Falling back to user helper
2017-08-17T06:16:41-07:00 err kernel: [ 22.369844] f
irmware ath10k!QCA988X!hw2.0!board-2.bin: firmware_loadi
ng_store: map pages failed
2017-08-17T06:16:41-07:00 info kernel: [ 22.378820]
ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: board_file api 1 bmi_id N/A crc
32 bebc7c08
2017-08-17T06:16:41-07:00 info kernel: [ 23.523587]
ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: htt-ver 2.1 wmi-op 5 htt-op 2 c
al otp max-sta 128 raw 0 hwcrypto 1