I'm running Debian 9.4 through VirtualBox and trying to connect my USB wireless adapter to it. I'm using an Alfa AWUS036NHA wireless adapter that has an Atheros AR9271 Chipset https://www.amazon.com/Alfa-AWUS036NHA- ... B004Y6MIXS.
I have downloaded the firmware-atheros package as specified in the Debian Wiki https://wiki.debian.org/ath9k_htc#supported so that Debian now recognizes the wifi adapter and I am able to see the available wireless networks to connect to. The problem now lies in the fact that I can't connect to the networks. And before you ask, yes, I did quadruple check to make sure I typed in the correct passcode .
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I've used this wireless adapter on a Kali virtual image where all the drivers and firmware were already pre-configured so everything worked.
I've also tried installing the open-firmware as specified here: (https://wiki.debian.org/ath9k_htc/open_firmware), but it yielded the same results.
Here are some stats I've seen people post in other fourms to try to give more info about their system:
dmesg|grep -Ei 'wlan|firmw|dhc'
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[ 5185.316771] usb 1-1: ath9k_htc: Firmware ath9k_htc/htc_9271-1.4.0.fw requested
[ 5185.316821] usb 1-1: firmware: direct-loading firmware ath9k_htc/htc_9271-1.4.0.fw
[ 5186.488756] ath9k_htc 1-1:1.0 wlx00c0ca96bfea: renamed from wlan0
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Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0cf3:9271 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271 802.11n
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ath9k_htc 65536 0
ath9k_common 32768 1 ath9k_htc
ath9k_hw 458752 2 ath9k_htc,ath9k_common
ath 32768 3 ath9k_htc,ath9k_hw,ath9k_common
mac80211 671744 1 ath9k_htc
cfg80211 589824 4 ath9k_htc,mac80211,ath,ath9k_common
usbcore 253952 6 ath9k_htc,usbhid,ehci_hcd,ohci_pci,ohci_hcd,ehci_pci