Bug#631394: error: Please upgrade to FW version 1.3
Package: firmware-atheros
Version: 0.3
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 found this page http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k_htc which contained a link this (http://wireless.kernel.org/download/htc_fw/1.3/ )
download location which includes the 1.3 version. I downloaded the htc_7071.fw file and placed it in /lib/firmware directory.
Once the module reloaded the device is correctly identified:
Jun 23 15:07:08 chris-desktop kernel: [ 1559.815440] usb 6-1.1: new high speed USB device number 7 using ehci_hcd
Jun 23 15:07:09 chris-desktop kernel: [ 1559.907898] usb 6-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=0cf3, idProduct=7015
Jun 23 15:07:09 chris-desktop kernel: [ 1559.907901] usb 6-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=16, Product=32, SerialNumber=48
Jun 23 15:07:09 chris-desktop kernel: [ 1559.907902] usb 6-1.1: Product: UB95
Jun 23 15:07:09 chris-desktop kernel: [ 1559.907903] usb 6-1.1: Manufacturer: ATHEROS
Jun 23 15:07:09 chris-desktop kernel: [ 1559.907904] usb 6-1.1: SerialNumber: 12345
Jun 23 15:07:09 chris-desktop kernel: [ 1560.016328] usb 6-1.1: ath9k_htc: Transferred FW: htc_7010.fw, size: 72992
Jun 23 15:07:09 chris-desktop kernel: [ 1560.077339] ath9k_htc 6-1.1:1.0: ath9k_htc: HTC initialized with 45 credits
Jun 23 15:07:09 chris-desktop kernel: [ 1560.204309] ath9k_htc 6-1.1:1.0: ath9k_htc: FW Version: 1.3
Could this package be updated with the newer version of the firmware?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-rc2 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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