From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chase Douglas Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:15:58 -0400 Subject: [ath9k-devel] Firmware - ar9271.fw not found In-Reply-To: <4C400751.5070902@canonical.com> References: <1908737015270049666@unknownmsgid> <1279246946.3299.38.camel@mini> <4C400751.5070902@canonical.com> Message-ID: <1279282558.3299.48.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 Fri, 2010-07-16 at 09:16 +0200, Stefan Bader wrote: > On 07/16/2010 04:22 AM, Chase Douglas wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > From what I read that is not the case. Two identically set up machines show > different behaviour and if the ls and error message were done on the same > machine the file is actually there. > I have not read the code, so I am more speculating, but could some other error > in the firmware loading be falsely evaluated as fw not found? Yeah, I misread it all of course :). It was a long day and all... -- Chase