Any chance of using this network hardware on linux?

Question

I have bought TP-Link TL-WN422G usb wireless adapter. By mistake I took ver.2, which uses Atheros AR9271 chipset. That chipset is still not supported by linux. It uses ath9k_htc driver which is stilll under development.
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k_htc
Ok, I use .33 kernel, and device is listed on dmesg and lsusb. But there is network interface that uses it.
I want to say that ifconfig does not show that interface.
Does it mean that driver is loaded but something is wrong with it, or it is not loaded at all, becouse it is not in kernel.
Please help me with this.

Answer 1

I guess I have to change something else in PKGBUILD...
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.33-ck/build M=/data/myabs/compat-wireless/src/compat-wireless-2010-03-28 "INSTALL_MOD_DIR=updates" "INSTALL_MOD_PATH=/lib/modules/2.6.33-ck" \
        modules_install
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.33-ck'
mkdir: cannot create directory `/lib/modules/2.6.33-ck/lib': Permission denied
make[1]: *** [_emodinst_] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.33-ck'
make: *** [install-modules] Error 2
It tries to install modules in /lib/modules, how to change this. To only build the package, and let pacman take care of placing them in modules.
This is the pkgbuild:
pkgname=compat-wireless
_kernver=`uname -r`
pkgver=20100328
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Snapshots of the wireless-testing tree"
url="http://linuxwireless.org"
#depends=('kernel26>=2.6.27' 'kernel26=2.6.33')
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
license=('GPL')
install=$pkgname.install
source=(http://wireless.kernel.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2010-03-28.tar.bz2)
md5sums=(e660b59df312e39c74f7e3d768c83173)
build() {
    cd ${startdir}/src/compat-wireless-2010-03-28/
    scripts/driver-select ath9k_htc
    make KLIB=/lib/modules/$(uname -r) INSTALL_MOD_PATH=${startdir}/pkg install-modules || return 1
    sed -i -e "s/KERNEL_VERSION='.*'/KERNEL_VERSION='${_kernver}'/" $startdir/*.install
I used .install from AUR compat-wireless for .31
# arg 1:  the new package version
post_install()
  KERNEL_VERSION=''
  depmod -v $KERNEL_VERSION > /dev/null 2>&1
# arg 1:  the new package version
# arg 2:  the old package version
post_upgrade()
  KERNEL_VERSION=''
  depmod -v $KERNEL_VERSION > /dev/null 2>&1
# arg 1:  the old package version
post_remove()
  KERNEL_VERSION=''
  depmod -v $KERNEL_VERSION > /dev/null 2>&1       
op=$1
shift
$op $*