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I recently purchased a Lenovo G-50-80 FUIN laptop. It hosts Qualcom Atheros(rev 20) wifi card. I could not find the drivers for this card anywhere. Can we expect next distribution of ubuntu(oct 15 release) to include those?

Here is the output of lspci -knn | grep Net -A2 command:

03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros Device [168c:0041]
(rev 20)
    Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3545]

PS: Web search done before posting here lead me to something clled ath10k drivers and that these drivers are available in linux kernel version 3.20.0. As far as I know, no ubuntu distribution has kernel 3.20.x. I have tried ubuntu 12.04, 14.04 (both 32 and 64 bit) and 15.04(64 bit) but no success yet. Also tried one version of mint OS but the wifi doesn't work in any of those systems.

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This device is not supported yet. There is a bug report.

Device [168c:0040] QCA99X0_2_0 is already supported in linux-next.

There is a good chance that same driver supports 0041 device too. But it will need a kernel patch to include the device ID.

I can build a module for testing and post it to the bug report. If you spend some effort on testing, the solution may come faster.

There is no kernel 3.20. Linus Torvalds decided to rename it to 4.0.

But still your device is not supported by any kernel yet.

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