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+The reghack utility replaces the regulatory domain rules in the driver binaries
+with less restrictive ones. The current version also lifts the 5GHz radar
+channel restrictions in ath9k.
+
+This version is made for current OpenWrt trunk. To patch older releases like 12.09,
+use http://luci.subsignal.org/~jow/reghack/old/ .
+
+How to use:
+
+ssh root@openwrt
+
+On ar71xx:
+
+cd /tmp/
+wget http://luci.subsignal.org/~jow/reghack/reghack.mips.elf
+chmod +x reghack.mips.elf
+./reghack.mips.elf /lib/modules/*/ath.ko
+./reghack.mips.elf /lib/modules/*/cfg80211.ko
+reboot
+
+On mpc85xx:
+
+cd /tmp/
+wget http://luci.subsignal.org/~jow/reghack/reghack.ppc.elf
+chmod +x reghack.ppc.elf
+./reghack.ppc.elf /lib/modules/*/ath.ko
+./reghack.ppc.elf /lib/modules/*/cfg80211.ko
+reboot
+
+On x86:
+
+cd /tmp/
+wget http://luci.subsignal.org/~jow/reghack/reghack.x86.elf
+chmod +x reghack.x86.elf
+./reghack.x86.elf /lib/modules/*/ath.ko
+./reghack.x86.elf /lib/modules/*/cfg80211.ko
+
+On amd64:
+
+cd /tmp/
+wget http://luci.subsignal.org/~jow/reghack/reghack.x86_64.elf
+chmod +x reghack.x86_64.elf
+./reghack.x86_64.elf /lib/modules/*/ath.ko
+./reghack.x86_64.elf /lib/modules/*/cfg80211.ko