From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chase Douglas Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:22:26 -0400 Subject: [ath9k-devel] Firmware - ar9271.fw not found In-Reply-To: References: <1908737015270049666@unknownmsgid> Message-ID: <1279246946.3299.38.camel@mini> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 10:17 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:50 AM, Falk-Moritz Schaefer > wrote: > > Hi all, > > Please avoid HTML e-mails at all costs. > > > I have problems getting TL-WN721N to work. I have two identical laptops both > > with a fresh Ubuntu 10.04 and BIOS Update. On one laptop the wireless usb > > device works, on the other one I get the firmware error after one minute > > (see below). > > > > :/lib/firmware$ ls -la ar*.fw > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51280 2010-07-15 08:51 ar9271.fw > > > > tail -f /var/log/kern.log > > Jul 15 09:38:14 leber kernel: [ 201.144235] usb 1-3: ath9k_htc: Firmware - > > ar9271.fw not found > > Odd, yeah that should work, TL-WN721N is listed as AR9271 and not > AR7010, which ath9k_htc also supports. The AR7010 devices does require > an update usb mode switch [1] but since your device is not AR7010 I do > not think that is the issue here. I take it you are usng > compat-wireless? > > CC'ing the Ubuntu kernel team. Hey you guys have any idea on this? Thanks Luis Falk, please open a bug against the linux-firmware package for this issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/+filebug Unless I've misread something, it sounds like we are just missing the firmware file. That should be an easy fix. Thanks, -- Chase