It appears that the atmel-firmware package has a couple of firmwares that are incorrectly named (not according to what kernel sources use). for fw in `qlist atmel|sed -n 's:/lib/firmware/::p'`; do if ! grep -qr ${fw} /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/wireless; then echo ${fw} fi done Produces (3.0.4): atmel_at76c504c-wpa.bin atmel_at76c503-rfmd-0.90.2-140.bin The first one should be probably drop the "c" - /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/wireless/atmel.c has MODULE_FIRMWARE("atmel_at76c504-wpa.bin")). It's not due to the kernel version either - try searching the net for atmel_at76c504c-wpa.bin with/without MODULE_FIRMWARE. The second one should be probably dropped altogether - the naming convention is weird, and /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/wireless/at76c50x-usb.c has references to two atmel_at76c503-rfmd* files in the package. I am classifying the bug as minor, as there apparently is a pre-wpa (whatever that means) version of atmel_at76c504c-wpa.bin in the package (atmel_at76c504.bin). Caveat emptor: all of the above is only a guess; should be probably checked with upstream.
Debian package is providing exactly that files and they look to work ok... what exact problem are you suffering?
The files work (probably) due to details I posted above. I have sent a question about this to package's author, Simon Kelley <simon@thekelleys.org.uk>.
Here is the response from Simon Kelley: ----- Wow, this is ancient history indeed. The Atmel wireless chips never made it beyond 802.11b, so I doubt many people are still using them. I still have some atmel hardware, but nothing with a PCMCIA slot to plug them into. I think it may be true that there's a typo in either the filename or the kernel table for atmel_at76c504c-wpa.bin. I guess nobody even noticed because it will fall back to using atmel_at76c504.bin which is functionally equivalent. As far as atmel_at76c503-rfmd-0.90.2-140.bin goes, that's for the USB variant, which has a different driver that I had no part in. I packaged all the possible firmwares so that everything that driver might need would be available. If you want to lose that file, best to ask the maintainers of at76c50x-usb.c, if they're still alive! ----- It seems that wrt. atmel_at76c503-rfmd-0.90.2-140.bin, it can indeed be used, after going over drivers/net/wireless/at76c50x-usb.c (e.g., search for "snprintf"). So it's down to one file: atmel_at76c504c-wpa.bin. Maybe it should be renamed to atmel_at76c504-wpa.bin. Someone with relevant hardware would need to test, I guess.
+*atmel-firmware-1.3-r1 (01 Jan 2013) + + 01 Jan 2013; Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> +atmel-firmware-1.3-r1.ebuild: + atmel_at76c504c-wpa.bin should be renamed to atmel_at76c504-wpa.bin, bug + #398803 by Maxim Kammerer +
