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From: DaFy <tbrisiot@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:22:11 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [ath9k-devel] ar9271.fw not found
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You have to download the file ar9271.fw and then copy it in/lib/firmware 

Here is the firmware
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-
firmware.git;a=blob_plain;f=ar9271.fw;hb=35b308409dc18991ec833c