TL-WN821N

[Herman]

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!

[CurlyMo]

It could be that we didn't include those firmware files. Does dmesg also state what firmware file you need?

[Herman]

Ok, no it does not. But that would explain alot why it don't work...

[CurlyMo]

Can you check google what firmware file you need?

[Koenkk]

http://myubuntunotes.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/hello-world/

[Herman]

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!

[CurlyMo]

Can you tell us exactly what you did, and what files you used?

[Herman]

cd /lib/firmware/

From http://wiki.debian.org/carl9170

I used the wget command as stated in the page.

Then it worked.

[psykup]

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

[Koenkk]

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.