Bug#711470: ath9k_htc updated firmware for firmware-linux-free
Package: firmware-linux-free
Version: 3.2
The current firmware-linux-free package does not contain free firmware for the certain Atheros chipsets. Recently, the htc_7010.fw and htc_9721.fw firmwares were updated by Atheros and re-released under a free software license. This would invoke the removal of the non-free firmwares from the firmware-atheros package as well.
More information at https://www.fsf.org/news/ryf-ce.rtification-thinkpenguin-usb-with-atheros-chip.
Recent firmware files can be obtained from http://jxself.org/ath9k-htc/version-1.3.2/ or from the source at https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware. Please consider updating these two firmware files in a package update for Wheezy and above when possible.
I am using Debian GNU/Linux 7 with kernel 3.2.0.4
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