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ATH3KFW(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual ATH3KFW(8)
NAME
ath3kfw - firmware download utility for Atheros AR3011/AR3012 chip based
Bluetooth USB devices
SYNOPSIS
ath3kfw -d device_name -f firmware_path
ath3kfw -h
DESCRIPTION
The ath3kfw utility downloads the specified firmware file to the
specified ugen(4) device.
This utility will only work with Atheros AR3011 and AR3012 chip based
Bluetooth USB devices. The identification is currently based on USB
vendor ID/product ID pair. The vendor ID should be 0x0cf3
(USB_VENDOR_ATHEROS2) and the product ID should be one of the supported
devices.
Firmware files are available in the linux-firmware RPM.
The ath3kfw utility will query the device to determine which firmware
image and board configuration to load in at runtime.
The options are as follows:
-D Enable verbose debugging.
-d device_name
Specify ugen(4) device name.
I Enable informational debugging.
-f firmware_path
Specify the directory containing the firmware files to search and
upload.
-h Display usage message and exit.
EXIT STATUS
The ath3kfw utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO
libusb(3), ugen(4), devd(8)
AUTHORS
The original utility was written by Maksim Yevmenkin
<m_evmenkin@yahoo.com>. This was written based on Linux ath3k by
Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>.
BUGS
Most likely. Please report if found.
FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11 June 4, 2016 FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11