I needed to find a new wifi card and I was looking on amazon for such a item. After reading reviews on many cards I found two reviews that stated out of the box function. I purchased one for this old HP and maybe my new build for win10. and I am using it Ubuntu 18.04 right now and it found it before I installed the OS. I have tried this on Debian 9.6 buster and it found with no issues.
Feb SmartFS-N600 basic edition V2
Here the information about this card
Code:
05:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR93xx Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
Subsystem: Qualcomm Atheros AR93xx Wireless Network Adapter
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at febe0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
Expansion ROM at febd0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/4 Maskable+ 64bit+
Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [300] Device Serial Number 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
Kernel driver in use: ath9k
Kernel modules: ath9k
