[Bug 658061] New: Support of Atheros 9170 Wireless chipset by carl9170 driver
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658061 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658061#c0 Summary: Support of Atheros 9170 Wireless chipset by carl9170 driver Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.4 Version: Milestone 4 of 6 Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: Jens_Westemeier@web.de QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 SUSE/3.6.12-0.7.1 Firefox/3.6.12 I tried to use my Atheros 9170 based wlan usb stick in a Vmware virtual machine without sucess. Some of my problems result from running in a virtual machie (disabling me from doing a "real" reset of the device), but some are distribution related. The kernel provides 2 drivers for this chipset: ar9170usb and carl9170. carl9170 is the newer one and provides full speed. Connecting the device gets both drivers to be loaded and not interacting properly (lsmod shows both drivers loaded, /var/log/messages shows wiered errors). -> ar9170usb should be blacklisted by default. The packages (even the kernel-firmware) don't provide the required (opensource) FW. -> Install /lib/firmware/carl9170-1.fw by the appropriate rpm. Latest version can be found at "http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/chr/carl9170/fw/" Greetings, Jens. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Connect a Atheros 9170 based wireless stick to the system Actual Results: lsmod shows ar9170usb and carl9170 loaded. No carl9170-1.fw found in /lib/firmware. Expected Results: Get carl9170 as the default driver for this device, blacklist ar9170usb. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658061 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658061#c Xinli Niu <xlniu@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED CC| |xlniu@novell.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |kernel-maintainers@forge.pr |ovo.novell.com |ovo.novell.com -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658061 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658061#c1 Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jeffm@novell.com AssignedTo|kernel-maintainers@forge.pr |gregkh@novell.com |ovo.novell.com | --- Comment #1 from Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@novell.com> 2011-02-07 18:20:55 UTC --- Greg, can you add the firmware to the kernel-firmware package? Once that's done, I'll disable the ar9170 driver. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658061 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658061#c2 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |Jens_Westemeier@web.de --- Comment #2 from Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@novell.com> 2011-02-10 18:42:55 UTC --- The firmware needs to go to the upstream linux-firmware package, why hasn't it been accepted there? As I can't seem to find a distribution license for the firmware, or an author information, we can't accept this into our tree, sorry. Can you ask the upstream developer to please submit it to the linux-firmware package? Or do you need me to do that for you? -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658061 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658061#c3 --- Comment #3 from Jens Westemeier <Jens_Westemeier@web.de> 2011-02-11 08:18:30 UTC --- The FW is claimed GPLv2. Info & source can be found under http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/carl9170.fw Greetings, Jens. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658061 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658061#c4 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |RESOLVED InfoProvider|Jens_Westemeier@web.de | Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #4 from Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@novell.com> 2011-08-12 23:14:24 UTC --- the upstream developer needs to do this, I don't have the rights to do so, sorry. -- 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.
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