On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 02:38:04 -0400, Christopher Waid wrote: > There are some issues and/or bugs in the packaging of the firmware for a > few USB atheros chipsets. The firmware-atheros package is in the non-free > repository and while this would be the correct place a few years ago it no > longer is for some atheros firmware. > > The firmware for the Atheros USB chipsets AR9170, AR7010, and AR9271 have > been released under Debian compatible free software licenses. > > The AR9170 firmware included in the firmware-atheros package is also out > of date. The kernel no longer supports the AR9170 firmware. The driver and > firmware which replaced it is Carl9170. This has been true since the 3.0 > kernel. > I can't speak for the other ones, but carl9170 firmware is part of the firmware-linux-free package: http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/firmware-linux-free Cheers, Julien
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