Qualcomm Atheros Ar956x Wireless Network Adapter Driver for Windows 7 32 bit, Windows 7 64 bit, Windows 10, 8, XP. Uploaded on 3/1/2018, downloaded 6052 times, receiving a 97/100 rating by 3738 users. Download drivers for Atheros Qualcomm AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter Wi-Fi device, or download DriverPack Solution software for automatic driver.
I bought an Acer laptop and installed Ubuntu 14.04LTS but WiFi drivers are not available for it. So I am trying to install a windows driver using wifidocs/driver/ndiswrapper. On doing lspci -vvnn, it gives: Network controller [0280: Qualcomm Atheros Device [168c:0042] (rev 30) Then I also disabled the atheros drivers. Using lspci and lspci -n, I can say PCI id is 168c:0042. But Acer website has three atheros drivers.
I could not figure out which one to download but downloaded one on a windows PC and pasted the zip file on my desktop then unzipped it from the terminal using unzip.zip. The page says you have to go to control panel system hardware and all that on the windows system. I did not do it.
Windows computer not being mine, I am afraid I should not install any additional driver on it. After unzipping it has one.inx file and one.bin file but no.sys file. I don't know whether I am completely right till here or have I missed something? And if I am right then how to proceed from here? I also made a new directory and copied the unzipped.inx and.bin files in it. Then in that directory I ran the ndiswrapper -i.inf but it says ndiswrapper not installed and when I do sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-common, I get the reply that ndiswrapper-common is already the latest version.
First during sudo update and wget commands there were a few errors of not being able to connect to some sites. Then after I tar the file and the first time I ran the make defconfig-ath 10k command,by mistake I ran deconfig instead of defconfig but even when I ran defconfig it says can't find default configuration 'defconfigs/ath' and it gives make[1]: [defconfig-ath] Error 1 and make:.[defconfig-ath]Error 2 and after doing make it says your backport package is not configured and gives a list of options to configure it. – Dec 10 '15 at 21:05. Ubuntu 16.04 users should just need to sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade and reboot. You do not need Windows drivers and ndiswrapper.
This has been recently fixed upstream, follow these instructions to install the backported modules and needed firmware: sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) git echo 'options ath10kcore skipotp=y' sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/ath10kcore.conf wget tar -zxvf backports-4.4.2-1.tar.gz cd backport-4.4.2-1 make defconfig-wifi make sudo make install git clone sudo cp -r ath10k-firmware/QCA9377 /lib/firmware/ath10k/ sudo cp /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-5.binWLAN.TF.1.0-00267-1 /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-5.bin And it should work after a reboot. It will fail when a new kernel is installed through updates until the kernel is patched to support the wifi. When that happens you will need to: cd backports-4.4.2-1 make clean make defconfig-wifi make sudo make install And reboot.