[ath9k-devel] Firmware - ar9271.fw not found

[Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>]

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
>> <falk.schaefer@tu-dortmund.de> 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
> 
>