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

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 02:58:42PM -0700, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 14:48 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 02:34:35PM -0700, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Actually I thought the Ubuntu linux-backports-modules installs the modules
> > under /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/cw/ ?
> 
> Right, except that you missed "updates" before "cw".  Everything is
> installed in one directory with no subdirectories. 

Ah ok but in this case the user reporting issues would not be using
the Ubuntu package, and instead compiling the modules himself.

> Also, the ath9k_htc
> driver is not there (I'm using the up-to-date 2.6.32-23 kernel).
> 
> So ath9k_htc is from compat-wireless and it didn't work, but installing
> linux-backports-modules-wireless made it work somehow.

Hrm, that is odd...

  Luis