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Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:43:07 +0100
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Subject: Re: carl9170 and debian squeeze
From: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@googlemail.com>
To: Der Engel <engelster@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Der Engel <engelster@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a ubiquiti sr71-usb wireless adapter, 'lsusb' shows it as:
> 'Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9170 802.11n', the adapter works with
> the ar9170.fw firmware but I'm trying to make it work with the
> carl9170.fw, until now I have tried the following:
>
> I have put the carl9170.fw in /lib/firmware (debian default for
> firmware files) without the ar9170.fw, dmesg shows that the system its
> looking for a firmware with the exact name as 'ar9170.fw' or if it
> doesn't find that one it tries to finds the legacy ones(ar9170-1.fw &
> ar9170-2.fw), so it ignores carl9170.fw because is not named
> ar9170.fw, changing the name of carl9170.fw to ar9170.fw shows the
> following:
>
> dmesg | grep 9170
> [    2.329719] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0cf3, idProduct=9170
> [    8.817173] usb 2-2: firmware: requesting ar9170.fw
> [    9.862192] ar9170usb: probe of 2-2:1.0 failed with error -110
> [    9.862227] usbcore: registered new interface driver ar9170usb
>
> The kernel is debian stock one:Linux laptop 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Fri
> Dec 10 16:12:40 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> Any ideas how can I make carl9170.fw work in debian squeeze?
>
> Thanks,
> Der

Looks like the vendor-id/product-id is not considered in your kernel,
check [1] if your device is listed as supported devices.
I am not sure if the squeeze kernel has support for carl9170.

An easy way is to use compat-wireless (stable or bleeding edge) which
offers you newer wireless hardware support and features.
The wiki in [2] has informations and instructions for you.

- Sedat -

[1] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Devices
[2] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/stable/