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

[Chase Douglas]

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
> >> <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
> > 
> > 
> 
> 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