Greetings. I have a Purism 15v3 laptop with an Atheros AR9462 wi-fi card. The card works under Qubes but it's slow, with bit-rate of only 6/mpbs. I had this issue before, on the same laptop when it was first shipped with the PureOS distribution (a debian distribution) and was able to fix it by installing a firmware package found at https://packages.debian.org/buster/firmware-atheros. However, I'm not able to install this same "firmware driver" under Qubes, since it's in debian format and not fedora.
I downloaded a tool called "alien" which was able to convert the package into RPM format but then when I tried to install it using DNF in the SYS-NET cube, I received an error saying "firmware-atheros-20170823-2.noarch" conflicts with package linux-firmware-201771215-82.git2451bb.fc26.noarch. I'm thinking perhaps I should uninstall this conflicting package in order to install the atheros one that I know worked under PureOS, but frankly, I'm a bit out of my depth at this point and wondering if this makes sense to you all or might have other advice. Appreciate any thoughts you may have to assist. Warm Regards, Ringo -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/80c102b3-cb7c-44a8-bcca-dcf5c742bb08%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
