From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
To: Daniel Hatton <dan.hatton@btinternet.com>
Cc: GUIX help list <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: USB wifi and Bluetooth dongles under GUIX
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 18:21:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zu2g7ViHm6UMurSD@jurong> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e39453da-67bd-42fe-bb83-253588d03730@btinternet.com>
Hello Daniel,
Am Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 12:53:48PM +0100 schrieb Daniel Hatton:
> - The wifi connection drops with even the lightest of physical touches on
> the body of the dongle (Atheros AR9271), and because the dongle sticks out a
> long way from the laptop case, it gets touched a lot. Has anyone had any
> joy with a Linux-libre-driven USB wifi dongle that doesn't have these
> properties?
yes, but unfortunately I cannot suggest a particular brand. I have bought
a random, rather large and rather cheap external Atheros dongle years ago,
and it just works. I have even somewhat twisted the metal part of the USB
plug, and it still works.
dmesg says this:
[80900.045953] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0cf3, idProduct=9271, bcdDevice= 1.08
[80900.045976] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=16, Product=32, SerialNumber=48
[80900.045986] usb 1-2: Product: USB2.0 WLAN
[80900.045993] usb 1-2: Manufacturer: ATHEROS
[80900.046000] usb 1-2: SerialNumber: 12345
[80900.050769] usb 1-2: ath9k_htc: Firmware ath9k_htc/htc_9271-1.4.0.fw requested
[80900.051561] usb 1-2: Direct firmware load for ath9k_htc/htc_9271-1.4.0.fw failed with error -2
[80900.051594] usb 1-2: ath9k_htc: Firmware htc_9271.fw requested
[80900.344754] usb 1-2: ath9k_htc: Transferred FW: htc_9271.fw, size: 51008
[80900.595747] ath9k_htc 1-2:1.0: ath9k_htc: HTC initialized with 33 credits
[80900.909903] ath9k_htc 1-2:1.0: ath9k_htc: FW Version: 1.4
[80900.909921] ath9k_htc 1-2:1.0: FW RMW support: On
[80900.909929] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x809c
[80900.909935] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a country code
[80900.909940] ath: doing EEPROM country->regdmn map search
[80900.909943] ath: country maps to regdmn code: 0x52
[80900.909948] ath: Country alpha2 being used: CN
[80900.909953] ath: Regpair used: 0x52
[80900.917053] ieee80211 phy1: Atheros AR9271 Rev:1
[80900.921398] ath9k_htc 1-2:1.0 wlp0s20f0u2: renamed from wlan0
I have tried bluetooth, but just enabling it in the service part of my
system definition did not make it work, and I was not motivated enough to
spend time debugging.
Similarly for the sleeping function.
Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-09-20 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-09-19 11:53 USB wifi and Bluetooth dongles under GUIX Daniel Hatton
2024-09-20 16:21 ` Andreas Enge [this message]
2024-09-20 16:30 ` Daniel Hatton
2024-09-23 5:46 ` Efraim Flashner
2024-11-27 11:14 ` USB wifi and Bluetooth dongles under GUIX: SOLVED Daniel Hatton
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