On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 15:50 +0100, Christopher Baines wrote: > Package: firmware-atheros > Version: 0.3
I think you mean version 0.30. Version numbers are not decimal fractions - for example, version 0.10 is later than version 0.9. > Severity: important > > I have just aquired a TP-Link TL-WN821N usb wireless adaptor, I > installed the firmware package as described on this page: > http://wiki.debian.org/ath9k_htc > but on ataching the device I go this output in /var/log/syslog: > Jun 23 14:47:49 chris-desktop kernel: [ 403.862114] usb 6-1.1: new high > speed USB device number 4 using ehci_hcd > Jun 23 14:47:49 chris-desktop kernel: [ 403.954557] usb 6-1.1: New USB > device found, idVendor=0cf3, idProduct=7015 > Jun 23 14:47:49 chris-desktop kernel: [ 403.954559] usb 6-1.1: New USB > device strings: Mfr=16, Product=32, SerialNumber=48 > Jun 23 14:47:49 chris-desktop kernel: [ 403.954560] usb 6-1.1: Product: UB95 > Jun 23 14:47:49 chris-desktop kernel: [ 403.954561] usb 6-1.1: Manufacturer: > ATHEROS > Jun 23 14:47:49 chris-desktop kernel: [ 403.954562] usb 6-1.1: SerialNumber: > 12345 > Jun 23 14:47:49 chris-desktop kernel: [ 404.060725] usb 6-1.1: ath9k_htc: > Transferred FW: htc_7010.fw, size: 72996 > Jun 23 14:47:49 chris-desktop kernel: [ 404.121769] ath9k_htc 6-1.1:1.0: > ath9k_htc: HTC initialized with 45 credits > Jun 23 14:47:49 chris-desktop kernel: [ 404.248103] ath9k_htc 6-1.1:1.0: > ath9k_htc: FW Version: 1.0 > Jun 23 14:47:49 chris-desktop kernel: [ 404.248105] ath9k_htc 6-1.1:1.0: > ath9k_htc: Please upgrade to FW version 1.3 > Jun 23 14:47:49 chris-desktop kernel: [ 404.248979] Failed to initialize the > device [...] I'm checking this with the developers at Atheros. You should be able to use Linux 2.6.39 as the ath9k_htc driver in that will work with an older firmware version. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
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