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I've installed Ubuntu 14.04 yesterday and all it's updates as well as I read many solutions on Google for how to get Ubuntu to detect your WiFi card and nothing worked, probably because my WiFi card differs from others' I was able to identify the WiFi card model by writing this on terminal: "lshw -C network"

and this is the model description: 

"*-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Network controller
       product: QCA6164 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
       vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       version: 20
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:f0800000-f09fffff"

I was not able in no way to get it working, I tried the additional drivers option it didn't show any unknown driver except for AMD graphic card, I can only access the Internet by Wire or Bluetooth. And yes Ubuntu is up to date I'm clueless about if there's any extras I should be downloading.

Thanks in advance!

Pilot6
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Zayd
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According to the Linux Wireless wiki, you need to have a kernel version of 4.3 or later for this wireless card to work. Your current kernel is probably 3.19, since you're on a fresh install of 14.04. In a terminal, type this to see your current kernel version:

uname -r

Assuming that you have an ethernet connection, you can install kernel version 4.4 by running this command in the terminal:

sudo apt-get install linux-generic-lts-xenial

Once the kernel install finishes, restart your computer, then follow these instructions from this bug report:

1) Get the latest firmware from https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/archive/master.zip

2) Unzip this file, and copy the contents of ath10k-firmware-master to /lib/firmware/ath10k.

3) Rename two of the firmware files like so:

cd /lib/firmware/QCA6174/hw2.1
sudo mv firmware-5.bin_SW_RM.1.1.1-00157-QCARMSWPZ-1 firmware-5.bin
cd /lib/firmware/QCA6174/hw3.0
sudo mv firmware-4.bin_WLAN.RM.2.0-00180-QCARMSWPZ-1 firmware-4.bin

4) Reboot your computer. Run "lshw -C network" to see if your card is recognized.

blendenzo
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1436940 contains all the info you need to fix it

wagyourtail
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