Originally Posted by
Sl3ipnir
Did you ever solve this? Having the same problem, VirtualBox 5.1, Kali Rolling, Win10. TP TL-WN722N v1.
Hello,
I have spent quite a lot of time on this although the solution was trivial so I share it . I have followed the previous poster's steps to replace the factory firmware with a custom compiled version.
Note: there at making the tools 1 step is missing before make all you have to generate the make file with "cmake ." in the directory.
So after building the custom firmware it still did not load with the same error, the solution was: Changing Vmware USB emulation to 2.x from the default 1.x !
Reboot and the card works, voila:
Code:
[ 46.403948] usb 1-1: ath9k_htc: Firmware ath9k_htc/htc_9271-1.4.0.fw requested
[ 46.404214] usbcore: registered new interface driver ath9k_htc
[ 46.408881] usb 1-1: firmware: failed to load ath9k_htc/htc_9271-1.4.0.fw (-2)
[ 46.408886] usb 1-1: Direct firmware load for ath9k_htc/htc_9271-1.4.0.fw failed with error -2
[ 46.408903] usb 1-1: ath9k_htc: Firmware htc_9271.fw requested
[ 46.409615] usb 1-1: firmware: direct-loading firmware htc_9271.fw
[ 46.713659] usb 1-1: ath9k_htc: Transferred FW: htc_9271.fw, size: 50980
[ 46.973285] ath9k_htc 1-1:1.0: ath9k_htc: HTC initialized with 33 credits
[ 48.694025] ath9k_htc 1-1:1.0: ath9k_htc: FW Version: 1.3
[ 48.694037] ath9k_htc 1-1:1.0: FW RMW support: Off
[ 48.694042] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x833a
[ 48.694046] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a country code
[ 48.694051] ath: doing EEPROM country->regdmn map search
[ 48.694055] ath: country maps to regdmn code: 0x37
[ 48.694058] ath: Country alpha2 being used: GB
[ 48.694061] ath: Regpair used: 0x37
[ 48.761391] ieee80211 phy0: Atheros AR9271 Rev:1
[ 48.776933] cfg80211: Regulatory domain changed to country: GB
[ 48.776941] cfg80211: DFS Master region: ETSI
[ 48.776943] cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp), (dfs_cac_time)
[ 48.776945] cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
[ 48.776947] cfg80211: (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 80000 KHz, 160000 KHz AUTO), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
[ 48.776949] cfg80211: (5250000 KHz - 5330000 KHz @ 80000 KHz, 160000 KHz AUTO), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (0 s)
[ 48.776951] cfg80211: (5490000 KHz - 5710000 KHz @ 160000 KHz), (N/A, 2700 mBm), (0 s)
[ 48.776953] cfg80211: (57000000 KHz - 66000000 KHz @ 2160000 KHz), (N/A, 4000 mBm), (N/A)
I have upgraded my whole kali from moto mainly because of this card. It was working but segfaulted over the kernel log all over the place, because of this it's operation in airodump/kismet seemed more "sluggish".
With:
Code:
Linux kali 4.6.0-kali1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.6.4-1kali1 (2016-07-21) x86_64 GNU/Linux
ls -al /lib/firmware/ath9k_htc/htc_*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72844 Sep 6 22:25 /lib/firmware/ath9k_htc/htc_7010.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51040 Sep 6 22:25 /lib/firmware/ath9k_htc/htc_9271.fw
So far so good