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How to go back to old madwifi

So in a fresh netinstall of Debian, it comes with ath5k for my wireless card by default. How do I go back to the old madwifi-ng drivers and disable ath5k?

One way,probably the easiest (that's how I did it) would be to download and install;

Code:

apt-get install build-essential module-assistant wireless-tools madwifi-tools madwifi-source madwifi-modules-2.6.26-1-686

You'll need contrib and non-free in the sources list and kernel source (linux-headers-2.6.26-1-686).Update your system,if necessary.

Code:

module-assistant auto-install madwifi-source

Code:

modprobe -r ath5k

Code:

modprobe ath_pci

Reboot.
I recommend using wicd because it will do everything for you automagically and it's great.
If necessary update your /etc/network/interfaces so that it looks like;

Code:

auto ath0

iface ath0 inet dhcp

wireless-key your-key

wireless-essid your-essid

Maybe you'll need static IP addresses in the code above.

Thanks, I got it working, but when I boot my computer up, it automatically loads ath5k so I have to unload it and load the old madwifi every time. How do I make madwifi the default instead of ath5k?

Look for /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and add a line

Code:

ath5k