Linux on Dell Inspiron 17 I5 with Atheros QCA9377 WiFi Card

Linux on Dell Inspiron 17 I5 with Atheros QCA9377 WiFi Card

Initial setup and WiFi troubleshooting for Linux Kali / Ubuntu / Debian

No WiFi !? Atheros ATH10K QCA9377 Wifi and Monitor Mode not working:

Fresh installation of Linux and No WiFi Network:
Driver issue ATH10K with Atheros QCA9377 card
Missing „non-free“ package: sudo apt install firmware-atheros

No Monitor-Mode:
In case of using security tools from kali-linux, the „monitor-mode“ has to be enabled. The last firmware for QCA9377 with working Monitor Mode is from 22-06-2017 (supports no packet injection), so downgrade and run the following commands. Save old files before doing this !
This will clone the repo from github, pull the fetch from 2017, copy/replace the firmware5.bin file and delete firmware6.bin file in directory /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0

git clone https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/
cd linux-firmware/ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/
git checkout dd5fba3a56bbb4c4a72576faa19f8bd45fed7ef6
sudo cp firmware-5.bin /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/
sudo rm /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-6.bin

Reboot 🙂

Touchpad (touchclick) not working:
sudo apt install xinput
sudo synclient tapbutton1=1

Mounting external NAS Folder at startup:
sudo apt install cifs-utils keyutils
sudo mkdir /home/IamUser/MyNewFolder
cd /etc
sudo nano fstab

add this as one line to the end of file
//192.168.xxx.xxx/MyShare /home/IamUser/MyNewFolder cifs defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000,noserverino,username=USERNAME,password=PASWORD,rw

The mount will be active at restart or type
sudo mount -a

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