RE: Setting up Atheros Ar5001 wifi


Da
No there's no need to downgrade the whole system. You could go for
apt-pinning, which essentially means that you'll fetch the
package-lists from various releases (testing, stable, unstable) and
configure apt to "prefer" one of them so that when you install/upgrade
it automagically choses the distro you prefer but you'll see all the
available packages in your synaptics/aptitude/apt-get-lists. This is
achieved by: 1. add the relevant repositories to your
/etc/apt/sources.list (e.g. add the "stable" or "lenny" repositories,
also make sure you have the non-free branches included as that's where
the madwifi-* packages reside), then change the file
/etc/apt/preferences (create it if it doesn't exist yet) to something
like this:

aku@hexbrex:~$ cat /etc/apt/preferences
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 700

Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 650

the above entries basically tell apt-get & Co. to prefer the testing
versions of any package over the stable ones (the higher
"Pin-Priorities" are the preferred ones). But it'll be able to "see"
all the packages from all the releases included in your sources.list.
Then run 'apt-get update' or 'aptitude update' or whatever other way
you use to update your package-cache. Now you should be able to
install madwifi et al.

There's also a bit of configuration to be done in
/etc/modprobe.d/madwifi, uncomment the line:
blacklist ath5k

and comment out all the lines below
## madwifi (non-free)

Hope that helps


Hi Sebi,



I have done as you indicated in your email but now the wireless card is
not even detected after a restart. Could you show me how my interface
configuration file should look like.



Regards,

Ogya



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