Comment 2 for bug 286897

definitely not working now.
ubuntu developers seems to be good at knocking out users using 242x atheros.
First when I installed 8.10 snapshot one month ago, all I needed to do to get wifi working was to disable (quite absurd!?) atheros drivers in hardware drivers.
After recent update when ath5k module was got rid of and substituted by mac80211 (which does not support 242x) the 8.10 users don't have any option anymore.

I understand the trend to get things working in more elegant way (e.g. hal drivers), but I don't think it's ok to left users without choice which drivers for wifi to use. Is it really that big problem to ship new kernel package for intrepid with ath5k compiled as module?

Marian