On 5/15/19 8:27 AM, Dave wrote:
I've been trying off and on to get a Qualcom Atheros to work. lspci shows it as AR9227. It's a plain PCI card. I've come to the conclusion that there must be a firmware blob for this card. I'm not sure which one it will use. Ubuntu /lib/firmware has various choices under the "ath9k" directory. Does anyone know the short answer to this? Are firmware blobs always compiled in the kernel? Are the blob files always a *.bin file?
Sometimes firmware has a .fw extension. I have a Qualcomm Atheros AR9287 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) on my development system, but don't use it very much. Right now I am not using firmware, but the kernel recognizes it:
[ 5.886718] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x809c [ 5.886718] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a country code [ 5.886719] ath: doing EEPROM country->regdmn map search [ 5.886719] ath: country maps to regdmn code: 0x52 [ 5.886720] ath: Country alpha2 being used: CN [ 5.886720] ath: Regpair used: 0x52 My kernel config is CONFIG_ATH_COMMON=y CONFIG_WLAN_VENDOR_ATH=y CONFIG_ATH9K_HW=y CONFIG_ATH9K_COMMON=y CONFIG_ATH9K=y CONFIG_ATH9K_PCI=y CONFIG_ATH9K_AHB=y CONFIG_ATH9K_RFKILL=y CONFIG_ATH9K_PCOEM=y CONFIG_ATH9K_HWRNG=y and I have $ ls /sys/class/net br0 eth0 lo sit0 wlan0 so the card is recognized. If I do $ sudo ifconfig wlan0 up $ sudo iw dev wlan0 scan I get the appropriate output. -- Bruce -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
