wifi upgrade for xfce (Solved)

[Yankee]

There are two upgrades for wifi (dkms and madwifi) currently in Synaptic.

If installed my Atheros wifi cannot work, says cannot find drivers and so forth.

Had to restore to get the wifi to work after those two upgrades.  

Any ideas ?   Not safe with my hardware and those two packages.

FYI,


FF

[Sproggy]

firstly ... did you upgrade your Kernel aswell??? ...

if you've now restored your system ... please do the following

open terminal

su to root

and enter the following

sh -c "echo 'options ath5k nohwcrypt' >/etc/modprobe.d/custom-
wireless.conf"

reboot to confirm your wireless works ok ... then upgrade your packages ... this should keep your wifi working ... lemme know if it doesnt

Kori

[Yankee]

firstly ... did you upgrade your Kernel aswell??? ...

Hi,

Well the kernel files are installed, now the new kernel will not boot.
Line for line identical to the old kernel in menu.lst but only the old
kernel will boot.  Ran grub setup once also for this portable partition.

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timeout 10
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/gfxmenu
default 0

title linux
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=/dev/sdb1 vmalloc=256M splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img

title linux-nonfb
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=UUID=c753331e-b047-4595-bb89-9433bc91ed4b vmalloc=256M
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img

title failsafe
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=UUID=c753331e-b047-4595-bb89-9433bc91ed4b failsafe vmalloc=256M
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img

title 2.6.33.5-pclos1.bfs
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.33.5-pclos1.bfs BOOT_IMAGE=2.6.33.5-pclos1.bfs root=UUID=c753331e-b047-4595-bb89-9433bc91ed4b vmalloc=256M splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-2.6.33.5-pclos1.bfs.img

title 2.6.37.4-pclos1.bfs
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37.4-pclos1.bfs BOOT_IMAGE=2.6.37.4-pclos1.bfs root=UUID=c753331e-b047-4595-bb89-9433bc91ed4b vmalloc=256M splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-2.6.37.4-pclos1.bfs.img


Any ideas Sproggy ?


FF

edit:  after letting the computer install modules for about 5 minutes it did successfully
boot with the new kernel.   Checking the madwifi shortly.    THX.