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

[Chase Douglas]

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 at 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