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I have tested several Ubuntu distributions (Ubuntu, Mint) on my Laptop (Acer Aspire VN7-791), but on none of them the WLAN interface (Qualcomm Atheros QCA61x4) could be detected. I already know about the Acer Hotkeys issue, but I dont't think this is the cause because the other hotkeys are working correctly (e.g. deactivating the mousepad). So I have no idea why the interface can not be used.

Output of lspci -knn | grep Net -A2

07:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [168c:003e] (rev 20)
    Subsystem: Lite-On Communications Inc Device [11ad:0804]
    Kernel driver in use: ath10k_pci
08:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe [14e4:1692] (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:091d]
    Kernel driver in use: tg3
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This wireless adapter is supported in Ubuntu 15.10 after running

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

You need to be connected to internet by wire to get the updates.

If you like an LTS version of Ubuntu, you can get the adapter work there using this answer

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