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From: Malte Gell <malte.gell@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.33: ar9170.fw firmware file not found
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 09:57:26 +0100
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Malte Gell <malte.gell@gmx.de> wrote

> I just upgraded from Kernel 2.6.32 to 2.6.33 and the ar9170 driver suddenly
> says "firmware file not found". Of course, I have the one stage and the two
>  two stage files in /lib/firmware. What does this error occur? Do I have to
>  update the firmware? Does kernel 2.6.33 need more recent firmware files?
>  Or what is the reason? Or is it a bug?

I have added the rule

SUBSYSTEM=="compat_firmware", ACTION=="add", RUN+="firmware.sh"

to /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules (openSUSE 11.1), but it did not 
help yet... it still got not found...