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

Pavel Roskin proski at gnu.org
Tue Jul 20 21:34:35 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 08:34 +0200, Falk-Moritz Schaefer wrote:

> The linux-backports-modules-wireless-2.6.32-21-generic were not
> installed. After installing them, everything works fine. I am a bit
> confused, but thanks for the help!

Actually, I was totally wrong.  The race condition affects kernels
_before_ 2.6.30, so no kernels in Ubuntu 10.10. should be affected.
Sorry for confusion!

> # modinfo ath9k_htc
> filename:      
> /lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/updates/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k_htc.ko

That's the Ubuntu package, as expected.

It looks like you have found a different problem with firmware download
that affects the current compat-wireless but not compat-wireless
packaged by Ubuntu.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin





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