Hello there,

 

I am looking for some feedback/suggestion about an issue I have.

 

Installed Armbian legacy kernel just yesterday. Then I have plugged https://www.olimex.com/Products/USB-Modules/MOD-WIFI-AR9271-ANT/ to enable wifi and found out I missed required firmware. I installed such firmware (htc_9271.fw) first by Ubuntu linux-firmware package, then tried with armbian-firmware-full, then I have downloaded from here http://linuxwireless.org/download/htc_fw/1.3/ (putting in /lib/firmware and after failing tried also /lib/firmware/ath9k_htc like package manager does. I have also tried compiling my own version from here https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware

 

In all of these cases, looks like firmware is not detected and loaded and therefore wif interface is not created. Errors I get in dmesg are of the kind:

[  371.442863] usb 2-1: ath9k_htc: Firmware htc_9271.fw requested
[  371.460441] usb 2-1: ath9k_htc: Failed to get firmware htc_9271.fw
[  371.473538] usb 2-1: ath9k_htc: USB layer deinitialized

 

Can anybody confirm this issue? Packages from Ubuntu and Armbian repos put firmware in /lib/firmware/ath9k_htc, but I have also tried /lib/firmware. Are those the right places to go?

 

 

Many thanks for any feedback on this

 

Antonio

Same issue with my Cubieboard 2

apt install armbian-firmware-full should fix this problem. I have this adaptor and its working.