Question Atheros at9721 on android

[nenadilievski72]

I have huawei p9 lite and it has the famous issue with the wifi/Bluetooth not working at all. So im trying to use external wifi adapter on the device. I have atheros ar9271. Any advice how to get this to work?

 

[kanewolf]

Is your phone rooted?

 

[nenadilievski72]

Is your phone rooted?

no but i will root it if i have to.

I have another rooted phone so will use that one to try. (moto g6 play)

 

[bill001g]

It isn't just the fact that it is rooted. It is using the root function to get the drivers for the nic installed on the phone. Be very careful that is a extremely old nic. There are linux drivers for it but I am not sure they work with android.

 

[nenadilievski72]

It isn't just the fact that it is rooted. It is using the root function to get the drivers for the nic installed on the phone. Be very careful that is a extremely old nic. There are linux drivers for it but I am not sure they work with android.

Ive tried on the rooted moto and it doesn't seem to get the drivers by itself. The device is detected as otg device but nat as a wifi adapter. Any way of manually installing drivers?