Wifi doesn't work on my Acer E5-574G. When I boot into the live USB session it looks as wifi is disabled. Meanwhile I do have ethernet connection. My laptop has a: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 card. I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 64 bit. I've checked for additional drivers but no wireless network card driver shows up. Here is the output for lspci -knn | grep Net -A2; rfkill list:

03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros Device [168c:0042] (rev 30) Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device [105b:e09a] Kernel driver in use: ath10k_pci
1: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no
2: acer-bluetooth: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no
3: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no

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With a temporary working internet connection by ethernet or whatever means possible, please open a terminal and do:

wget
sudo dpkg -i linux-firmware*.deb

Reboot and your wireless should be working correctly.

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