ath9k_htc Module

[rwiggum]

Hey everyone,

I've been lurking for a while and this board has been invaluable when hacking away at the Pogoplug I nabbed a while back. Thank you all for sharing along the way, it's been a huge help.

I've got a USB wireless card I'd love to get up and working with the pogo, but it looks like the module I need to use, ath9k_htc, isn't included in the kernel until 2.6.35 and we're using 2.6.31 right now. I'm comfortable with making modules, but is there any way to pull the module from the 2.6.35 source tree and compile it for the present stable kernel? Any guidance would be appreciated.

[Philoo]

That's a long story but the short answer is: NO.

the pogoplug pro and its oxnas-based sibling suffer from a bug(?) that makes kernels beyond 2.6.31.6 quite unstable, resolution of that bug does not seem likely anytime soon. WarheadSE recently was forced to backport some of the newest features of the 3.x kernel, he took the opportunity to enable a LOT of things into that kernel.
That update is anyway more or less mandatory if you want to run pacman -Syu ever again.
there are quite a few of realtech and ralink devices supported in there, did not spot the atheros.

I'm afraid you'll need to switch hardware, either use a different wireless card or a different plug computer (the newer kirkwood based pogoplugs run kernel 3.x and even have a builtin wifi adapter).
Finally using the small and cheapish TP-LINK TL-WR703N is becoming a more and more common way to enable wifi on a wire-only device. (it's a MIPS system, no archlinux on it but it seem openwrt is a common hack on it)

*edit: typos