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> 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 Windows 7: Simplify what you do everyday. Find the right PC for you. |