I have D-Link DWA-160 There's newer version of /usr/lib/firmware/carl9170-1.fw on http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/carl9170/fw1.9.4?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=carl9170-1.fw md5sum:30e2ae80c33b3008d271556d1a14e3ea I found it here http://aptosid.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=612 After replacing by newer file, suddanly works
Actually, that file isn't packaged in Fedora at all. There is some on going work to get it packaged and built from source. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 866051 ***