Thanks a lot mason.
Indeed, it was enough for my needs.
Trisquel's main repository has atheros-firmware. Debian's non-free repository
has firmware-atheros. They're different packages. Magic Banana is referring
to open-ath9k-htc-firmware, which is the free replacement for
firmware-atheros. If you would like to use open-ath9k-htc-firmware in a
This is the odd part:
on Trisquel's working PC, I have:
* open-ath9k-htc-firmware
* firmware-atheros
* firmware-carl9170
on another Trisquel that's not working with this Wi-Fi device, I have none of
these installed.
On the Debian ASUS non working, I have installed "firmware-linux-free",
The Wi-Fi device works with free software (tested on another machine).
My PC is an ASUS KFSN4-DRE.
It's listed within lsusb as as Atheros AR9271.
But I have nothing in iwconfig nor in ifconfig -a.
I also tried lspci, ip a...
And I did a few reboots.
seems my PC "failed to load ath9k_htc".
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