I have an (acient) Acer Aspire 5520G laptop. I just installed Mint 19 (and ran the software updater) , and the built-iin wireless connector doesn't work. I ran rfkill and nothing is blocked. Here are the results (just for the wireless adapter) of running
lshw -C network
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
logical name: wlp5s0
version: 01
serial: 00:1d:d9:60:48:64
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath5k driverversion=4.15.0-36-generic firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:19 memory:d0400000-d040ffff
lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 Wireless; dmesg | grep ath5k
05:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) [168c:001c] (rev 01)
Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. AR5BXB63 802.11bg NIC [1468:0428]
Kernel driver in use: ath5k
[ 39.693964] ath5k 0000:05:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have ASPM control
[ 39.694530] ath5k 0000:05:00.0: registered as 'phy0'
[ 40.393892] ath5k: phy0: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC: 0xe2, PHY: 0x70)
[ 40.405351] ath5k 0000:05:00.0 wlp5s0: renamed from wlan0
It looks to me like all my ducks are in a row, but for some inexplicable reason, it won't connect via wireless.
Acer 5520 Wireless Doesn't Connect
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