On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 3:28 PM, John W. Linville linville@redhat.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:
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!
Thanks, John. Since the referred wireless adapter did not improve my signal reception, I returned it to the shop meanwhile. So, in my case, that is not anymore an issue. However, I did have the wireless adapter working with
kernel-2.6.38.8-35.fc15.x86_64
Paul