On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 3:28 PM, John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx> 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 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
