Program to install ath9k_htc (Atheros Linux Driver)

**thetruckinglife** · November 28th, 2011

Originally Posted by DaveZppln

Snoopy-2009 said the WNA1100 has out-of-the-box support for 11.04. Does anyone know if this is the case for 11.10??

hmm not sure what out of the box means but when i did a clean install of Ubuntu 11.10 (when it was released) my wna1100 was up and ready
i put my card in the usb slot then did the install and when it was done wireless networks were available for use.

**owlcroft** · December 11th, 2011

I am very frustrated. Let me present the situation. Ubuntu 10.10, clean install (some while ago).

From this URL--

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ath9...2010.10-fixed/

--I downloaded this .deb package:

ath9k_htc-installer.1.0.1-maverick-fixed.deb 2010-10-18

I double-clicked it, Software Center came up, I clicked Install, and it installed right off. I then went to the menu and activated the installer program, which appeared to run fine, then rebooted.

In fact, everything looks fine, except that the WNA1100 blue light doesn't come on, and Network Manager reports no wireless connections.

My Linux kernel is 2.6.35-31-generic (the latest, I believe). Here are the outputs of some of the commands I see often wanted for diagnostics:

Code:

lsusb
Bus 010 Device 002: ID 04f9:0028 Brother Industries, Ltd Printer
Bus 010 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 009 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 046d:c404 Logitech, Inc. TrackMan Wheel
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0846:9030 NetGear, Inc. 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Code:

iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=0 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off

Code:

dmesg | grep ath
[   11.515998] usbcore: registered new interface driver ath9k_hif_usb
[  106.224804] usb 2-1: ath9k_htc: Transferred FW: ar9271.fw, size: 51280
[  106.489789] usb 2-1: ath9k_htc: HTC initialized with 33 credits
[  106.960758] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x60
[  106.960762] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
[  106.960767] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
[  106.960770] ath: Regpair used: 0x60
[  107.009840] Registered led device: ath9k-phy0::radio
[  107.009883] Registered led device: ath9k-phy0::assoc
[  107.009923] Registered led device: ath9k-phy0::tx
[  107.009968] Registered led device: ath9k-phy0::rx
[  107.009973] usb 2-1: ath9k_htc: USB layer initialized
[  919.343372] usb 2-1: ath9k_htc: USB layer deinitialized
[  930.807366] usb 2-1: ath9k_htc: Transferred FW: ar9271.fw, size: 51280
[  931.072365] usb 2-1: ath9k_htc: HTC initialized with 33 credits
[  931.553635] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x60
[  931.553639] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
[  931.553644] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
[  931.553646] ath: Regpair used: 0x60
[  931.558162] Registered led device: ath9k-phy1::radio
[  931.558204] Registered led device: ath9k-phy1::assoc
[  931.558249] Registered led device: ath9k-phy1::tx
[  931.558286] Registered led device: ath9k-phy1::rx
[  931.558291] usb 2-1: ath9k_htc: USB layer initialized

Code:

lsmod | grep ath9k
ath9k_htc              48888  0 
mac80211              274352  1 ath9k_htc
led_class               3393  1 ath9k_htc
ath9k_common            3143  1 ath9k_htc
ath9k_hw              306666  2 ath9k_htc,ath9k_common
ath                    16045  2 ath9k_htc,ath9k_hw
cfg80211              164649  3 ath9k_htc,mac80211,ath

Code:

cat /etc/modules
# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.

lp
rtc
sg

# Generated by sensors-detect on Wed Dec 22 14:39:56 2010
# Chip drivers
it87

ath9k_htc

Code:

ls -l /lib/firmware/ar*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 70624 2011-02-18 10:04 /lib/firmware/ar7010_1_1.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 70608 2010-08-29 17:12 /lib/firmware/ar7010.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 83968 2010-12-13 12:01 /lib/firmware/ar9170-1.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3508 2010-12-13 12:01 /lib/firmware/ar9170-2.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15960 2010-12-13 12:01 /lib/firmware/ar9170.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51280 2010-12-13 12:01 /lib/firmware/ar9271.fw

In the directory /lib/firmware/ are (among others) these files:

Code:

-rw-r--r--  1 root root   70624 2011-02-18 10:04 ar7010_1_1.fw
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   70608 2010-08-29 17:12 ar7010.fw
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   83968 2010-12-13 12:01 ar9170-1.fw
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    3508 2010-12-13 12:01 ar9170-2.fw
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   15960 2010-12-13 12:01 ar9170.fw
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   51280 2010-12-13 12:01 ar9271.fw
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 2010-12-13 12:01 ath3k-1.fw
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  246804 2010-12-13 12:01 ath3k-2.fw
-rw-r--r--  1 eric eric   72992 2011-12-10 15:35 htc_7010.fw
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   51272 2011-12-09 17:02 htc_9271.fw

Any ideas or help? Please?

**vagrale13** · December 17th, 2011

@owlcroft
Strange, must be works!

Maybe you can try with the last driver changes.
For how to see here http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...8&postcount=47
and then reboot, and see if it works!

**owlcroft** · December 18th, 2011

Thank you. I'll give it a try soon now, and report results here.

**owlcroft** · December 18th, 2011

Well, I looked more closely and I am not at present using compat-wireless, and I do have the very latest kernel installed. I am reluctant to add compat-wireless in when, from its documentation, it appears intended only to provide backwards support for older kernels.

From the various data readouts above, is there anything at all that doesn't look right?

**vviinnccee** · January 3rd, 2012

Hello,

It seems to me that I am in a situation similar to post 42, since I have a clean 10.04 32 bit install. It's on an old computer (evo n800v). It's also a netgear WNA1100. I have tried several configurations, and here are the results.

In all the following situations, I am using

version 1.3 of htc_9271.fw and htc_7010.fw in /lib/firmware, as available here : http://linuxwireless.org/download/htc_fw/
ar9271.fw as in post 45, also in /lib/firmware

I also have different results of lsusb, depending of ... something (but I don't know what).

Sometimes this

Code:

lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0cf3:9271 Atheros Communications, Inc.

or sometimes this

Code:

lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0846:9030 NetGear, Inc.

v1.0.4 of the package: not working

In kern.log

Code:

[   84.220142] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
[   84.354023] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

and that's all ... the firmware is not loading, nothing

Code:

lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0cf3:9271 Atheros Communications, Inc.

v1.0.3: works sometimes

After the first restart, I plugged and it was working

Code:

[  105.296101] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
[  105.446566] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[  105.818366] usb 1-1: ath9k_htc: Transferred FW: htc_9271.fw, size: 51272
[  106.054488] ath9k_htc 1-1:1.0: ath9k_htc: HTC initialized with 33 credits
[  106.264220] ath9k_htc 1-1:1.0: ath9k_htc: FW Version: 1.3
[  106.264230] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x60
[  106.264237] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
[  106.264247] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
[  106.264254] ath: Regpair used: 0x60
[  106.264266] cfg80211: Updating information on frequency 2412 MHz for a 20 MHz width channel with regulatory rule:
[  106.264276] cfg80211: 2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @  KHz), (N/A mBi, 2000 mBm)
(...)
[  106.267527] cfg80211: Ignoring regulatory request Set by core since the driver uses its own custom regulatory domain 
[  106.395490] ieee80211 phy0: Atheros AR9271 Rev:1
[  106.405166] Registered led device: ath9k_htc-phy0
[  106.405178] usb 1-1: ath9k_htc: USB layer initialized
[  106.598553] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan%d: link is not ready

Working also after I unpluged and re-pluged again, several times.

Also:

Code:

lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0846:9030 NetGear, Inc.

Second restart: (with the device plugged in during the restart)

It was working, but after an unplug and a re-plug, was not working anymore.

Code:

[  115.680183] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
[  115.829418] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[  116.155647] usb 1-1: ath9k_htc: Transferred FW: htc_9271.fw, size: 51272
[  116.391644] ath9k_htc 1-1:1.0: ath9k_htc: HTC initialized with 33 credits
[  116.545517] ath: Invalid EEPROM Magic. Endianness mismatch.
[  116.545534] ath: Unable to initialize hardware; initialization status: -22
[  116.545546] ath: Unable to initialize hardware; initialization status: -22
[  116.545570] Failed to initialize the device
[  116.555420] ath9k_htc: probe of 1-1:1.0 failed with error -22

Code:

lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0846:9030 NetGear, Inc.

Sometimes it's the following error:

Code:

[ 2994.096182] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
[ 2994.230315] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 2994.554475] usb 1-1: ath9k_htc: Transferred FW: htc_9271.fw, size: 51272
[ 2994.790608] ath9k_htc 1-1:1.0: ath9k_htc: HTC initialized with 33 credits
[ 2994.943605] ath: Bad EEPROM checksum 0x43e5 or revision 0x000f
[ 2994.943624] ath: Unable to initialize hardware; initialization status: -22
[ 2994.943636] ath: Unable to initialize hardware; initialization status: -22
[ 2994.943660] Failed to initialize the device
[ 2994.953945] ath9k_htc: probe of 1-1:1.0 failed with error -22

I experienced this behaviour several times with this version 1.0.3 : it was working after the first restart, but not after the second restart (whever the device was plugged or not during the restart)

v1.0.2: not working at all (first restart and after)

Code:

[  363.340172] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
[  363.474499] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[  363.798504] usb 1-1: ath9k_htc: Transferred FW: ar9271.fw, size: 51312
[  364.064617] usb 1-1: ath9k_htc: HTC initialized with 33 credits
[  364.232657] ath: Invalid EEPROM Magic. Endianness mismatch.
[  364.232673] ath: Unable to initialize hardware; initialization status: -22
[  364.232685] ath: Unable to initialize hardware; initialization status: -22
[  364.232709] Failed to initialize the device
[  364.233928] ath9k_hif_usb: probe of 1-1:1.0 failed with error -22

v1.0.0: not working at all (first restart and after)

Code:

[  125.168171] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
[  125.302501] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[  125.629265] usb 1-1: ath9k_htc: Transferred FW: ar9271.fw, size: 51280
[  125.897252] usb 1-1: ath9k_htc: HTC initialized with 33 credits
[  126.297162] Failed to initialize the device
[  126.298285] ath9k_hif_usb: probe of 1-1:1.0 failed with error -22

Last compat-wireless, as in post 47:

Code:

[   53.376142] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
[   53.509958] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   53.926294] usb 1-1: ath9k_htc: Transferred FW: htc_9271.fw, size: 51272
[   54.162159] ath9k_htc 1-1:1.0: ath9k_htc: HTC initialized with 33 credits
[   54.329489] ath: Invalid EEPROM Magic. Endianness mismatch.
[   54.329500] ath: Unable to initialize hardware; initialization status: -22
[   54.329507] ath: Unable to initialize hardware; initialization status: -22
[   54.329529] Failed to initialize the device
[   54.338768] ath9k_htc: probe of 1-1:1.0 failed with error -22

Code:

lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0cf3:9271 Atheros Communications, Inc.

I'm thinking of buying thinkpenguin's usb wifi, since the netgear wna1100 is the second usb wifi I try on Ubuntu, spending a lot of time in this ... I hate netgear now. And D-Link. And all the others.

Don't hesitate to tell me if you want me to try some things.

Vincent

**srijit92** · November 22nd, 2012

I have Netgear WNA1100 (Athreos 9271) based USB WiFi DOngle. I cannot start wlan0.I have installed the required firmware in /lib/firmware. OS is Ubuntu Server 12.04

Following are my configurations:

root@ubuntu:~# lsmod | grep ath9k
ath9k_htc 90811 0
mac80211 436455 1 ath9k_htc
ath9k_common 13781 1 ath9k_htc
ath9k_hw 391554 2 ath9k_htc,ath9k_common
ath 19387 3 ath9k_htc,ath9k_common,ath9k_hw
cfg80211 178679 3 ath9k_htc,mac80211,ath

/network/interfaces

# The loopback network interface
auto lo eth0
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp

root@ubuntu:~# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0846:9030 NetGear, Inc. WNA1100 Wireless-N 150 [Atheros AR9271]

root@ubuntu:~# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth1 no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.