On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 3:28 PM, John W. Linville <linville(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:36:06PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Paul Smith <phhs80(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> >> TP-LINK TL-WN821N
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > Can you post output of lsmod and lsusb. Have you installed the
firmware
> >>> > for the device into /lib/firmware? If the device is supported by
the
> >>> > kernel you won't be able to load the module without the
firmware
> >>> > installed.
> >>> >
> >>> > Google is your friend.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks, Terry.
> >>
> >> Why do you believe you need to install some kind of a driver? From the
> >> below, it looks like your card is an atheros chip-based one, and you have a
> >> bunch of ath9 modules loaded.
> >>
> >> What exactly is or is not working for you.
> >
> > Well, I plug the the USB device and nothing happens. According to the
> > manual, a led should be turned on when I plug the USB.
>
> A possible explanation is here:
>
>
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=268068
That relates to the carl9170 driver. We don't have that firmware
packaged in Fedora either -- no one ever bothered to review my
package of the SH cross compiler used to build the firmware, and I
haven't bothered to bang the drum about it either. Anyway, that's
a different issue.
The ath9k_htc firmware used to be in the linux-firmware tree, but
apparently they have stopped updating it there? Not sure...
Anyway, you can find the firmware and get it installed by starting
here:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k_htc#Firmware
Hth!
John
I also have a machine that has to use an external usb wifi adapter and
in my case I have a tiny device that relies on rtl8712su or rtl8192su
- which is a slight aside from the thread on ath9k...but similar issue
in that there is no wireless driver by default.
Until f14/15 I was able to compile the driver from the source from
realtek - and copy the firmware to /lib/firmware and it would work
fine - however I recently installed f16 alpha rc5 and updated via
ether - but the wireless driver won't compile - (yes I have
kernel-devel and kernel-headers).
I could give the output of lsusb and other diagnostics but I wonder if
anyone else has had a similar issue with f16a ? Any tips for
rtl8712/8192 for usb would be appreciated.
--
mike c