Re: Atheros onboard AR9271 can't load firmware most of the time

2014-06-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 09:31:24PM -0700, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > I see through various device man pages that some firmwares are > > supposed to be in /etc/firmware, and some are supposed to be in > > /libdata/firmware. Why can't they all be in one or the other? > > > Firmware was installed to

Re: Atheros onboard AR9271 can't load firmware most of the time

2014-05-06 Thread Martin Husemann
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 09:31:24PM -0700, Thomas Mueller wrote: > I see through various device man pages that some firmwares are > supposed to be in /etc/firmware, and some are supposed to be in > /libdata/firmware. Why can't they all be in one or the other? > > Firmware was installed to /libdata

Atheros onboard AR9271 can't load firmware most of the time

2014-05-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
I have MSI Z77 MPOWER motherboard, which includes Atheros AR9271 wi-fi chip, USB interface but part of the motherboard and not removable. I have USB-stick installations of NetBSD-current amd64 and i386, now at 6.99.40. A problem now and in the past is that the firmware fails to load most of th