I went through countless tutorials and similar questions in an attempt to solve this issue, but I still am unable to get wifi working, so I decided to post a new question.
I dual booted my Windows computer with Ubuntu 14.04 because my professor needed me to be compatible with the lab. On my Windows partition, the wifi works. On Linux, it does not work at all. I have tried to sudo-apt get install many backports, and none of them worked. There was an answer on here that almost solved my issue, but I tried to do the command sudo cp /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-5.bin_WLAN.TF.1.0-00267-1 /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-5.bin and it could not find the files after doing all the other steps.
This post was very helpful but did not solve my issues when I went through the steps.
Here is my output from a bunch of command line queries. I am a new Linux user and I am so lost. Any help would be much appreciated!!
lspci -nn | grep -i network
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros Device [168c:0042] (rev 31)
rfkill list
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: acer-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
sudo lshw -C network
*-network
description: Network controller
product: Qualcomm Atheros
vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
version: 31
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ath10k_pci latency=0
resources: irq:131 memory:b4200000-b43fffff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0.1
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.1
logical name: eth0
version: 12
serial: 54:ab:3a:f8:75:37
size: 1Gbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl8411-2_0.0.1 07/08/13 ip=192.168.0.86 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=1Gbit/s
resources: irq:129 ioport:3000(size=256) memory:b4404000-b4404fff memory:b4400000-b4403fff
lsmod | grep ath
ath10k_pci 40960 0
ath10k_core 315392 1 ath10k_pci
ath 32768 1 ath10k_core
mac80211 733184 1 ath10k_core
cfg80211 561152 4 wl,ath,mac80211,ath10k_core
dmesg | grep ath
[ 1.484608] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: pci irq msi-x interrupts 8 irq_mode 0 reset_mode 0
[ 1.727693] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/cal-pci-0000:03:00.0.bin failed with error -2
[ 1.735591] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-5.bin failed with error -2
[ 1.735596] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: could not fetch firmware file 'ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-5.bin': -2
[ 1.735680] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-4.bin failed with error -2
[ 1.735683] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: could not fetch firmware file 'ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-4.bin': -2
[ 1.735691] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-3.bin failed with error -2
[ 1.735692] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: could not fetch firmware file 'ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-3.bin': -2
[ 1.735699] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-2.bin failed with error -2
[ 1.735701] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: could not fetch firmware file 'ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-2.bin': -2
[ 1.735707] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware.bin failed with error -2
[ 1.735709] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: could not fetch firmware (-2)
[ 1.735711] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: could not fetch firmware files (-2)
[ 1.735713] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: could not probe fw (-2)
