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TL-WN821N - Herman - 13th Jan, 2013 09:35 PM
Hi
I have a TL-WN821N dongle and I cant get it working.
Under dmesg I get:
"firmware not found"
lsmod gives
carl9170 77212 0
ath 17400 1 carl9170
mac80211 273484 1 carl9170
cfg80211 186124 3 ath,mac80211,carl9170
and ifconfig does not have wlan0 configured...
So does anybody know why xbian loads the module for the dongle?
Chears!
RE: TL-WN821N - CurlyMo - 13th Jan, 2013 09:42 PM
It could be that we didn't include those firmware files. Does dmesg also state what firmware file you need?
RE: TL-WN821N - Herman - 13th Jan, 2013 10:11 PM
Ok, no it does not. But that would explain alot why it don't work...
RE: TL-WN821N - CurlyMo - 13th Jan, 2013 10:16 PM
Can you check google what firmware file you need?
RE: TL-WN821N - Koenkk - 13th Jan, 2013 11:25 PM
http://myubuntunotes.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/hello-world/
RE: TL-WN821N - Herman - 14th Jan, 2013 01:28 AM
Hi again!
The firmware files where there, or at least I thougt. /lib/firmware/ar9170.fw so that seems to be OK.
But thats the old ones, so I downloaded the carl9170 firmware and voila! It works!
RE: TL-WN821N - CurlyMo - 14th Jan, 2013 02:49 AM
Can you tell us exactly what you did, and what files you used?
RE: TL-WN821N - Herman - 14th Jan, 2013 03:23 AM
cd /lib/firmware/
From http://wiki.debian.org/carl9170
I used the wget command as stated in the page.
Then it worked.
RE: TL-WN821N - psykup - 30th Jan, 2013 12:35 AM
Hi,
I'm trying to add the same dongle wifi to xbian alpha 4 but it doesn't work for me.
I added the repository "deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib non-free" in "/etc/apt/sources.list" and installed "firmware-linux-free".
Next I put the latest firmware carl9170-1.fw in "/lib/firmware"
The device is recognized with "lsusb"
Terminal
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0cf3:7015 Atheros Communications, Inc. TP-Link TL-WN821N v3 802.11n [Atheros AR7010+AR9287]
But I can't go further with the XBMC Network-Manager, please does anyone know what's my problem?
I also upgraded "firmware-atheros" but it's not better.
Some help would be very appreciate.
Ju
RE: TL-WN821N - Koenkk - 30th Jan, 2013 02:08 AM
The XBMC network manager is bugged and will be replaced in alpha 5. Setup your wireless in xbian-config (will popup once you login via SSH) -> System -> Network.