ath11k-firmware VS Mac

Format the USB and clone ath11k-firmware (this commit worked for me) onto it

Background- I recently bought a Honor magicbook 14 laptop. I installed Manjaro/XFCE on it as I have been using Manjaro for around a year and like it. Everything seems fine apart from the wi-fi network adapter (Qualcomm QCNFA765 Wireless Network Adapter) which uses the ATHK11 driver which for whatever reason was lacking a "board file" that would allow Manjaro to recognize my wireless network adapter. Other people have had this problem (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215625) and an amended driver was posted on git. (https://github.com/kvalo/ath11k-firmware).

Wifi and Bluetooth weren't working on the default Manjaro installation. I tried multiple kernel versions and Qualcomm's drivers from https://github.com/kvalo/ath11k-firmware/blob/master/WCN6855/hw2.0/board-2.bin. In some versions, either Bluetooth or Wifi was working, not both. Finally, I settled on experimental kernel 6.0.0rc7-1, where Bluetooth turns on and HW is detected, but still, I'm having issues with Bluetooth headphone connectivity. Please let me know if someone has a solution to this.

doesn't seem to be supported yet: https://github.com/kvalo/ath11k-firmware

I have a 9310 32gb model with the ax500. With a 5.17 kernel and the WLAN.HST.1.0.1-05266-QCAHSTSWPLZ_V2_TO_X86-1 ath11k firmware, the machine has been flawless. Well maybe not the fingerprint reader.. i installed some updates and that broke but I never really used it so I haven't bothered trying to fix it.

https://github.com/kvalo/ath11k-firmware/tree/master/QCA6390

You need to compile a kernel with some patches, or use kernel >= 5.13. And source firmware for it from here: https://github.com/kvalo/ath11k-firmware/tree/master/QCN9074/hw1.0/testing

Modern Macs are fine as terminals I suppose, unless you travel a lot or are on metered Internet. If so, then you have a lot of stuff to turn off. See:

https://gist.github.com/mmillar-bolis/dcfb3d1814fb0532eb3c71...

https://github.com/keithbarrett/Mac/blob/master/DisableMacSe...

https://gist.github.com/b0gdanw/40d000342dd1ba4d892ad0bdf03a...

I haven't used a Mac full-time for years, but the straw that broke the camels back for me was when I was traveling through multiple countries (including in New Zealand and on flights) and I could not get my damn Mac to stop sucking down, well, whatever it was doing. The number of default services running seems to have gotten even worse since then by the looks of these scripts...