https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=736345 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=736345#c0 Summary: Firmware "carl9170-1.fw" for Atheros 9170 WLAN USB stick (Netgear WN111v2) is missing Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.1 Version: Final Platform: All OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Network AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: uzsrjz@uni-bonn.de QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1 The current firmware "carl9170-1.fw" is not included in the kernel-firmware package. Because of that the WLAN USB stick Netgear WN111v2 does not work out-of-the-box. Downloading the current version 1.9.4 from linuxwireless.org und saving it in /lib/firmware solves the problem. WPA-PSK works at sufficient speed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Installing openSUSE 12.1 2. Setting up WLAN 3. Try to establish WLAN connection Actual Results: Firmware "carl9170-1.fw" version 1.9.4 is not installed, so no WLAN connection is established. Expected Results: Firmware "carl9170-1.fw" version 1.9.4 should be installed, so that a WLAN connection can be established. This problem was also present for openSUSE 11.4 in some way. The old kernel modules needed the "ar9170.fw" firmware, which wasn't provided by the kernel-firmware package. The provided firmwares "ar9170-1.fw" and "ar9170-2.fw" did not work and are still provided by the standard installation. Anyway the "ar9170.fw" had problems, too. Transfer rates were low and the connection was interrupted after some time; the new driver seems to be better. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.