Wi-Fi issue

Hello Guys. I am new to Linux and there is an issue with my wifi on a laptop on Zorin. From phone and other devices, the wifi works perfectly fine. But from this laptop wifi is disconnecting and I have to turn off wifi settings and on again each 5-10 mins. Do you guys what might be issue?

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System specs:

CPU
GPU
RAM
HD
ZORIN OS (i.e. Core Lite Pro )
Make of Computer
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Why does my wireless network keep disconnecting?

Wifi is seriously slow in zorin pro 16

Hello Buddy. I have tried several ways and still, nothing works for me wifi is dropping suddenly and I have to reconnect once in 4-5 min. Thank you for your response.

System specs:
CPU: Intel i7-7700HQ (8) @ 3.800GHz
GPU: Intel HD Graphics 630
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile
Memory: 5575MiB / 15878MiB
HDD: 2 terabyte
Lenovo Y520-15IKBN

Can you please post the output of

sudo lshw -c network

*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: wlp3s0
version: 31
serial: 64:6e:69:df:21:0f
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath10k_pci driverversion=5.13.0-35-generic firmware=WLAN.TF.2.1-00021-QCARMSWP-1 ip=192.168.0.39 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:133 memory:a4000000-a41fffff

This may be a firmware issue. Can you try the Firmware I uploaded here:

Elevate to root

sudo -i

nautilus

Or if using Zorin OS Lite:

thunar

Navigate to
/lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0
Rename firmware-5.bin & firmware-6.bin to firmware-5.bkp & firmware-6.bkp

Extract the files you downloaded a moment ago and move them to /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0
Reboot and test.

Thank you for your effort but this problem is still existing. I have done everything that you have mentioned and Problem remains the exactly same

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Is this a notebook computer or tower PC?

This is a notebook computer

Then you should check if Powersave is inhibiting your wifi.

sudo nano /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/default-wifi-powersave-on.conf

Change wifi.powersave = 3 to wifi.powersave = 2
tap ctrl+x to exit, then the y key, then the enter key.

Yes, I have done it and it is still the same problem. Don't know what to do.

In terminal, please run:

ls /sys/class/net

Make a note of the wlp... I.D. for your wifi. For this example, I will call it wlp0s0.
Replace all instances below of wlp0s0 with your noted I.D. discovered above.
Now run:

sudo nmcli networking off

sudo systemctl stop NetworkManager

sudo ip link set wlp0s0 down

sudo modprobe -r ath10k_pci

sudo modprobe -r ath10k_core

sudo modprobe ath10k_pci

sudo ip link set wlp0s0 up

sudo systemctl start NetworkManager

sudo nmcli networking on

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