Hi, On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 06:18:11PM -0500, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda wrote: > I have this usb dongle: > > http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/?model=tl-wn722n#over > > Tplink TL-WN722N, which according to driver (*.inf) is an atheros ar9271 > device. > > after inserting in usb slot I get: > > athn0 at uhub1 port 3 "ATHEROS USB2.0 WLAN" rev 2.00/1.08 addr 2 > athn0: could not load firmware > > and nothing else happens, with it inserted I ran fw_update(1), and > then tried to remove it and insert it again, still same message. > > should it work?
it should. I have the same device, and it works here (-current, but it works also in 5.5). > $ ls -alsh /etc/firmware > 140 -r--r--r-- 1 root bin 69.0K Jul 30 07:04 /etc/firmware/athn-ar7010 > 140 -r--r--r-- 1 root bin 69.0K Jul 30 07:04 /etc/firmware/athn-ar7010-11 > 104 -r--r--r-- 1 root bin 50.1K Jul 30 07:04 /etc/firmware/athn-ar9271 > 8 -r--r--r-- 1 root bin 2.2K Jul 30 07:04 /etc/firmware/athn-license > $ $ ls -alsh /etc/firmware/athn-* 140 -r--r--r-- 1 root bin 69.0K Jan 11 2014 /etc/firmware/athn-ar7010 140 -r--r--r-- 1 root bin 69.0K Jan 11 2014 /etc/firmware/athn-ar7010-11 104 -r--r--r-- 1 root bin 50.1K Jan 11 2014 /etc/firmware/athn-ar9271 8 -r--r--r-- 1 root bin 2.2K Jan 11 2014 /etc/firmware/athn-license $ sha1 /etc/firmware/athn-* SHA1 (/etc/firmware/athn-ar7010) = 4712a8674f6d32b3d2bb548d304177a0fea09558 SHA1 (/etc/firmware/athn-ar7010-11) = 08d0587306e965cd7b04c0715114978395b5ac35 SHA1 (/etc/firmware/athn-ar9271) = 494bc6957da8f6d04d68f8594337fee356c190d3 SHA1 (/etc/firmware/athn-license) = 5fc3ee1bec135933fd8b1c73191e7d7556b9eed0 $ pkg_info athn-firmware Information for inst:athn-firmware-1.1p1 [...] $ dmesg | grep athn athn0 at uhub0 port 4 "ATHEROS USB2.0 WLAN" rev 2.00/1.08 addr 2 athn0: AR9271 rev 1 (1T1R), ROM rev 13, address c0:4a:00:1c:c0:aa -- Sébastien Marie