Hello,

I'm trying to enable 5GHz mode for radio0 on a TP-Link WDR-3500. Radio0 runs off the AR9344 SoC and Radio1 runs off the an AR9582. I'm running Barrier Breaker R36195.

I was trying to modify some values in the ath9k driver's eeprom_def.c file by creating a patch and putting it in target/linux/ar71xx/patches-3.8. However, using printk()'s I noticed that none of my changes are showing up when I flash the machine. dmesg doesn't show any of my output.

After compiling I checked under build_dir/target-*/linux-ar71xx_generic/linux-3.8.3/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k and found that these files are indeed getting patched with my printk() statements. Somehow it seems that my code isn't ending up in the compiled ath9k.ko kernel module.

I haven't been able to figure out why my changes are not working. I'm at a loss. Does anybody know what I could be doing wrong? I'll be glad to supply any information I may have left out.

Thank You.

Are you sure that kernel tree driver was used ?
Check build_dir/target-*/linux-ar71xx_generic/compat-wireless-*/drivers/net/wireless/ath
I think you need apply patches to  package/mac80211.

Well, apparently I tried over 70 times to apply the patch to the wrong directory. This was over 28 hours of banging my head against a wall.

I only needed to apply my patch in package/mac80211/patches and it worked.

You Sir, are my hero.

Thank You!!!