On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 01:23:32AM +0200, Quentin Bourgeois wrote: > >Synopsis: wireless USB adapter firmware could not be loaded on > an APU1D board. > >Category: > >Environment: > System : OpenBSD 5.9 > Details : OpenBSD 5.9 (GENERIC.MP) #1888: Fri Feb 26 > >01:20:19 MST 2016 > > [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP > > Architecture: OpenBSD.amd64 > Machine : amd64 > >Description: I have an old wireless USB apadater, that requires the > firmware "athn-ar9271". I download the > athn-firmware-1.1p1 package using fw_update command > while the adpater was plugged into my board. After > downloading, installation and reboot the kernel can't > manage to load the expected firmware in order to work > with the network adapter. The given dmesg output will > show the kernel message will trying to load the given > firmware for athn0. > > Note, that this given wireless adapter works well on > my laptop, which is an amd64 that run the same > version of OpenBSD (5.9), with the > **athn-firmware-1.1p1. When I plug this adapter into > the laptop, the kernel load the firmware and I can, > for example, scan the available network using: > > ifconfig athn0 scan > > [0]: > https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-usb-adapter-gnu-linux-tpe-n150usb
I can't find an error message in your report, but I guess it is 'could not load firmware' or similar. This problem has been known for a long time and has been reported many times. The problem has nothing to do with the wireless driver, it is a problem with the ehci(4) driver on particular USB host controllers. See for details and past reports: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=143645936727569&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=141168711705963&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=146399722921864&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=142093563702846&w=2 As far as I can tell, the common denominator of most reports is this: > ehci0 at pci0 dev 18 function 2 "ATI SB700 USB2" rev 0x00: apic 2 int 17 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
