Please help to provide the ebuild for ar9170 firmware. Also, I download the firmware from linux-wireless and use the module from gentoo-sources-2.6.30, wl tool, which cannot let my dongle work normally. By dmesg, ar9170usb module try to do site survey and always return nothing. May attach the detail log for this issue. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. modprobe nl80211, ar9170usb 2. wl wlanX scan 3. No AP is scanned. My platform is AsRock ION 330.
Plug the dongle. dmesg [75289.032051] usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 10 [75289.198347] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=07d1, idProduct=3c10 [75289.198355] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=16, Product=32, SerialNumber=48 [75289.198360] usb 1-2: Product: USB2.0 WLAN [75289.198364] usb 1-2: Manufacturer: ATHER [75289.198368] usb 1-2: SerialNumber: 12345 [75289.198623] usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [75289.302045] usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 10 [75290.457041] usb 1-2: firmware: requesting ar9170-1.fw [75290.526690] usb 1-2: firmware: requesting ar9170-2.fw [75290.966468] phy2: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel' [75290.969195] Registered led device: ar9170-phy2::tx [75290.969261] Registered led device: ar9170-phy2::assoc [75290.969268] usb 1-2: Atheros AR9170 is registered as 'phy2'
ifconfig wlan1 up [75558.441523] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan1: link is not ready
what's the output of iwconfig ?
sabayon gcc # lsusb Bus 001 Device 010: ID 07d1:3c10 D-Link System Bus 001 Device 009: ID 13fd:1240 Initio Corporation Bus 001 Device 008: ID 05e3:0702 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB 2.0 IDE Adapter Bus 001 Device 007: ID 0bda:8189 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8187B Wireless 802.11g 54Mbps Network Adapter Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 005: ID 046d:c508 Logitech, Inc. Cordless Trackball Bus 001 Device 003: ID 05e3:0660 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB 2.0 Hub Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0603:00f2 Novatek Microelectronics Corp. Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)
iwconfig ---------------------- lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. pan0 no wireless extensions. wmaster0 no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"dd-wrt" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:1E:E5:21:61:93 Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality=63/70 Signal level=-47 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 wmaster1 no wireless extensions. wlan1 IEEE 802.11abg ESSID:"dd-wrt" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=18 dBm Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
#iwlist phy2 scan phy2 Interface doesn't support scanning. #iwlist wlan1 scan wlan1 No scan results
Success case under ubuntu. http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/netgear-wlan-usb-stick-wn111v2-mit-atheros- ch/3/#post-1874262
I've managed to make ar9170 TP-Link TL-WN821N to work under gentoo, you can check it here http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/TL-WN821N.
Need the ebuild for dongle listed below with Atheros WNIC driver and firmware. D-Link DWA-160 TP-Link TL-WN821N Refer: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ar9170
please do not add archteams to such bugs.
Is this under the Gentoo kernel or the Vanilla kernel? According to the Linux Wireless site, support (sans firmware) is in kernel 2.6.31. Enhanced versions in 2.6.32.
As a quick workaround you can emerge sys-kernel/linux-firmware (the current is 20110429) which includes all different firmware in one. The relevant files seems are ar9170-1.fw, ar9170-2.fw I found a firmware for my http://www.ubnt.com/wifistation (ar9271.fw, htc_9271.fw) in there too.
all appropriate firmware is in linux-firmware, please install that. Additionally ar9170 is deprecated in favor of carl9170 (which has firmware linux-firmware as well).
