> 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:
>
> a...@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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