[Voyage-linux] Downgrade madwifi in .6 to version in .5

[Edwin Whitelaw]

I've experienced the same problem and consider this a show stopper for 
moving to the new release.  It might be worth trying to compile with 
_newer_ madwifi releases as well.

Edwin

Andrew Malcolmson wrote:
> I want to run Voyage .6 to get access to Debian packages in Lenny, but
> am getting madwifi disconnection issues in .6 that I didn't in .5 with
> the same settings. Therefore, I'd like to downgrade the madwifi in .6 to
> that of .5.  
>
> I tried adding .5 sources to .6 and installed kernel 2.6.23-486-voyage. 
> I copied ath_pci.ko from an existing .5 install into
> /lib/modules/2.6.23-486-voyage/kernel/drivers/net/.  I rebooted into the
> older kernel but 'modprobe ath_pci' returned 'not found'.  Do I have to
> do anything special to let this kernel know that I've added a module?
>
> Am I missing any other steps to make this older madwifi work under the
> newer Voyage?
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> Andrew Malcolmson
>
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