Onboard wifi Adapter not working on Lenovo300 i5 skylake

Question

I recently installed Ubuntu 14.04 on a new, clean, Lenovo i5 Skylake Laptop.

The built in wifi adapter doesn't seem to be working. I used an Edimax stick, which was identified instantly, to access the web. Tried updating, upgrading, nada.

Any ideas?

lev@PC:~$ lspci -nn | grep -i net

Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 15) 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros Device [168c:0042] (rev 30)01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]:

Answer 1

I followed this: Qualcomm Atheros Device [168c:0042] (rev 30) Wi-Fi driver installation

Specifically the post by Jeremy31 that starts with:

You do not need Windows drivers and ndiswrapper

This has been recently fixed upstream, follow the instructions to install the backported modules and needed firmware

Worked like a charm. :) Thank you!