Comment 46 for bug 1160188

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Diego Carrera Gallego (diegocarrera2000) wrote :

# These Steps are used to get an excelent wireless signal on ATH9K on ubuntu 13.04 x64
# see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1160188
# https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49201
# Thanks so much, all peoples from these tracker systems that has been reported
# and helped about it. @Sujith Manoharan @jkp @gfmichaud

# i hope this could help more people until appears in kernel.
# first we got the kernel from github/torvalds and set to kernel 3.10-rc5 because
# this patch is tested on it.
# this command will get a folder called linux
git clone https://github.com/torvalds/linux.git
git checkout v3.10-rc5

#apply this patches, first add AR9300_EXT_LNA_CTL_GPIO_AR9485 value,
# second fix an error in first, and add more parameters
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2696121/
http://msujith.org/patches/wl/Jun-13-2013/0001-ath9k-Add-custom-parameters-for-CUS198.patch

# apply this modified patch
sudo su
mv linux /usr/src/linux-3.10-rc5;
cd /usr/src/linux-3.10-rc5;

# we start to compile the kernerl on ubuntu 13.04
# http://www.howopensource.com/2011/08/how-to-compile-and-install-linux-kernel-3-0-in-ubuntu-11-04-10-10-and-10-04/

make oldconfig
make
make modules_install install
mkinitramfs -o initrd.img-3.10.0-rc5 3.10.0-rc5
update-grub