Well, I took the USB Wifi adapter home to a Beagle running the 16-July-2014
image and the wicd-curses doesn't see my access point.
Details:
Running off of external 5V.
*lsusb*
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0cf3:9271 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271 802.11n
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
*ip addr*
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast
state DOWN qlen 1000
link/ether c8:a0:30:ac:70:61 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: usb0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state
UP qlen 1000
link/ether e6:bd:12:ae:62:dc brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.7.2/30 brd 192.168.7.3 scope global usb0
inet6 fe80::e4bd:12ff:feae:62dc/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
4: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000
link/ether 60:02:b4:86:90:fd brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
*dmesg:* http://paste.debian.net/110547/
On Thursday, July 17, 2014 4:09:27 PM UTC-4, Mark A. Yoder wrote:
>
> Well, that was the image I was using, so I reflashed it and now it working
> (mostly). I tried the 10-July image and it doesn't work.
>
> The mostly part is the campus uses enterprise authentication, so I'm still
> not able to connect, but at least I can see the access points now.
>
> I'm heading home where the wifi is much simpler. I hope it works there.
>
> --Mark
>
> On Thursday, July 17, 2014 2:12:06 PM UTC-4, RobertCNelson wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Mark A. Yoder <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >> # lsusb
>> >> Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0cf3:9271 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271
>> 802.11n
>> >> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
>> >> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
>> >>
>> >> http://paste.debian.net/110285/
>> >>
>> >> I switched to the 10-July-2014 image an am having the same results.
>> >
>> > Ah.. missing firmware:
>> >
>> > [ 18.225450] usb 1-1: ath9k_htc: Firmware htc_9271.fw requested
>> > [ 18.250536] usbcore: registered new interface driver ath9k_htc
>> > [ 18.766269] usb 1-1: ath9k_htc: Failed to get firmware htc_9271.fw
>> > [ 18.778499] usb 1-1: unregistering interface 1-1:1.0
>> > [ 18.779261] usb 1-1: ath9k_htc: USB layer deinitialized
>> > [ 18.779401] usb 1-1: usb_disable_device nuking non-ep0 URBs
>> >
>> >
>> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/htc_9271.fw
>>
>>
>> Hum, it should have been installed.
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/RobertCNelson/omap-image-builder/blob/master/scripts/chroot.sh#L754
>>
>>
>> The "lxde" image here should work..
>> http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#2014-07-16
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Robert Nelson
>> http://www.rcn-ee.com/
>>
>
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