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

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