I'm experiencing the same issue - it seems to occur whenever the device is reset - if I reboot my machine then I get the same error, but physically removing the adapter and reinserting it allows the firmware to be downloaded again.
I suspect that there's some reset command or process that isn't being carried out, but I don't know enough to debug the issue. I'm happy to test patches though. [ 204.260987] usb 1-1.4: new high speed USB device number 5 using orion-ehci [ 204.391715] usb 1-1.4: New USB device found, idVendor=0cf3, idProduct=1006 [ 204.398626] usb 1-1.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=16, Product=32, SerialNumber=48 [ 204.406251] usb 1-1.4: Product: USB2.0 WLAN [ 204.410449] usb 1-1.4: Manufacturer: ATHEROS [ 204.414769] usb 1-1.4: SerialNumber: 12345 I'll try increasing the timeout as suggested in the one of the other emails. Tom Lake _______________________________________________ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel