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In order to test the patch linked to in the following post: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/29#issuecomment-6884170 I need to compile a custom kernel for my Pi.

To do this, I followed the steps laid out here: http://elinux.org/RPi_Kernel_Compilation#Ubuntu_Linux

This all worked fine and I was able to boot my Pi, however now my wireless adapter has ceased to work (worked previously by adding ath9k and ath9k_htc to my rc.conf) and dmesg tells me: "Loading user specified modules: FAIL". Taking a look at lsmod I can see that no (?!) modules are loaded!

I think this has to do with the kernel not having the correct paths to the modules.

So my question is, how do I build a kernel with the above mentioned patch for Arch Linux on my Pi?

I'm currently building on Ubuntu, but I could setup a virtual x86 arch Linux if that would make things easier.

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  • Did you edit .config to compile ath9k and ath9k_htc as a module?
    – ArchHaskeller
    Commented Jul 31, 2012 at 17:06
  • Perhaps you didn't compile any modules? Did you run make modules_install when compiling the kernel?
    – Jivings
    Commented Jul 31, 2012 at 18:18

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Turned out that all that was needed was to create a symlink to /lib/modules/KERNEL_VERSION in /usr/lib/modules.

Seems that Arch Linux likes to keep modules in this directory.

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  • Ah of course, modudules… ;)
    – Jivings
    Commented Aug 1, 2012 at 12:40

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