Wifi card drivers not available

Hi, I’m trying to get an old wifi card (from 2015) working on rock5B

I took that from an old laptop, which was usually supported by default on linux.
Here I’m only able to see the card listed under lspci -k as:

0002:21:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device e07d

the output above shows the card hasn’t be loaded as it should also display:
Kernel driver in use:

A bit of research showed the driver for my card is ath9k which is a kernel module usually loaded by default.
I haven’t seen any thing related to that driver either from lsmod or looking at all available modules in /lib/modules/ ( find /lib/modules/$(uname -r) -type f -name '*.ko')

Anyone succeed in installing such wifi card? FYI I’m using archlinux, could it be kernel thing?
Any help appreciated, thanks

You have to build a kernel with CONFIG_ATH9K enabled. I’m using armbian, which also doesn’t enable it by default.

Thanks for quick answer… that’s why I thought, having to recompile :confused:
Good to know this is isn’t specific to Arch at least.
In the meanwhile just ordered the AX210