Other thing you can also do, is to send an email to the proprietor asking in
a nice manner to free his software.
There is no free/libre firmware for ath10k series. To be free as in freedom,
purchase an ath9k-htc series instead. Either AR7010 or AR9271 is good.
That firmware is not free software:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/master/LICENSE.qca_firmware
That forum does not assist the installation of proprietary software and the
induced loss of freedom. That would not be helping you.
The easiest solution to your problem
'sort -u' does remove all duplicates. What you consider duplicates in its
output must differ in some subtle way, e.g., an additional space at the end
of the line. Those differences can be ironed out. For instance, that
command "squeezes" the spaces (only leaves one if there are more) in
hello,
i use wifi card Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377
i check with # rfkill list all the status unblock
0: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft
