WiFi on Acer not working

[mikeglaz]

I just got an Acer Aspire V 15 Nitro model VN7-571G-769P and when I boot to Linux Mint 17.1 CD there is no WiFi. I have a Qualcomm Atheros WiFi adapter.

[Pjotr]

OK, first some more info please.
Generate an overview of your system like this:
- launch a terminal window and make it fullscreen, to avoid chopped lines;
- copy/paste this command into the terminal:

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inxi -Fxz

if you type: the letter F is a capital letter

Press Enter.

Copy/paste the output in your next message.

Do the same with this command:

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sudo rfkill list all

Type your password when prompted. Not even dots will show when you type it, that's normal. Press Enter again.

[mikeglaz]

inxi is not installed and I can't install it because I don't have a wired ethernet port. But I have this:

Output of lspci -knn | grep Net -A2 && rfkill list

Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros Device [168c:003e] (rev 20)
Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device [105b:e08e]
3D controller [0302]: NVIDIA Corporation GM108M [GeForce 840M] [10de:134] (rev a2)

hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

[JeremyB]

Download this file https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel ... 525.tar.gz however you can and write it to some removable storage to get it on your LM install and place it in your home folder. Then in terminal

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tar -zxvf backports-20150525.tar.gz

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cd backports-20150525

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make defconfig-ath10k

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make

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sudo make install

You will also need this in Linux Mint https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmwar ... master.zip but I am not totally sure where the firmware should be in /lib/firmware. After rebooting look at

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dmesg | grep -i firmware

and see if there are missing firmware messages from ath10k and then we might be able to figure this out

Nevermind, it still doesn't work. You can watch the bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... ug/1383184