On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 3:28 PM, John W. Linville <linville(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> >>> >> TP-LINK TL-WN821N
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > Can you post output of lsmod and lsusb. Have you installed the
firmware
> >>> > for the device into /lib/firmware? If the device is supported by
the
> >>> > kernel you won't be able to load the module without the
firmware
> >>> > installed.
> >>> >
> >>> > Google is your friend.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks, Terry.
> >>
> >> Why do you believe you need to install some kind of a driver? From the
> >> below, it looks like your card is an atheros chip-based one, and you have a
> >> bunch of ath9 modules loaded.
> >>
> >> What exactly is or is not working for you.
> >
> > Well, I plug the the USB device and nothing happens. According to the
> > manual, a led should be turned on when I plug the USB.
>
> A possible explanation is here:
>
>
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=268068
That relates to the carl9170 driver. We don't have that firmware
packaged in Fedora either -- no one ever bothered to review my
package of the SH cross compiler used to build the firmware, and I
haven't bothered to bang the drum about it either. Anyway, that's
a different issue.
The ath9k_htc firmware used to be in the linux-firmware tree, but
apparently they have stopped updating it there? Not sure...
Anyway, you can find the firmware and get it installed by starting
here:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k_htc#Firmware
Hth!
Thanks, John. Since the referred wireless adapter did not improve my
signal reception, I returned it to the shop meanwhile. So, in my case,
that is not anymore an issue. However, I did have the wireless adapter
working with
kernel-2.6.38.8-35.fc15.x86_64
Paul