Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174

The Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 is a 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter which is used in some laptops.

To make it work it needs the kernel driver and firmware.

Hardware detection
With the PCI based hardware can be searched through:

In case it does not display ath10k_pci it has to be set up in the kernel

The Qualcomm Atheros Killer N1525 Wireless-AC requires Linux firmware files.

At the time of writing, =sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20161205 doesn't seem to work with the Atheros wireless card. One manual step is still required to update to a working firmware. First backup the previous one.

Then download the working one.

This is what you should end up having.

Find out more on GitHub kvalo/ath10k-firmware.

Last step is to enable the ath10k module in the kernel configuration.