I hit exactly the same thing this evening after upgrading ( 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Fri Oct 24 06:42:44 UTC 2008 i686 in my case). The driver was there and had been working up until tonight.
I tried a reinstall from Synaptic but that didn't help.
I am able to hit esc during boot and switch back to 2.6.27.7-generic which still has the driver (notice ath9k for both kernels):
walter@waltwld6:/lib/modules$ find . -iname 'ath5k*'
./2.6.27-6-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k
./2.6.27-6-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/ath5k.ko
walter@waltwld6:/lib/modules$ find . -iname 'ath9k*'
./2.6.27-6-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k
./2.6.27-6-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/ath9k.ko
./2.6.27-7-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k
./2.6.27-7-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/ath9k.ko
I hit exactly the same thing this evening after upgrading ( 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Fri Oct 24 06:42:44 UTC 2008 i686 in my case). The driver was there and had been working up until tonight.
I tried a reinstall from Synaptic but that didn't help.
I am able to hit esc during boot and switch back to 2.6.27.7-generic which still has the driver (notice ath9k for both kernels): waltwld6: /lib/modules$ find . -iname 'ath5k*' 6-generic/ kernel/ drivers/ net/wireless/ ath5k 6-generic/ kernel/ drivers/ net/wireless/ ath5k/ath5k. ko waltwld6: /lib/modules$ find . -iname 'ath9k*' 6-generic/ kernel/ drivers/ net/wireless/ ath9k 6-generic/ kernel/ drivers/ net/wireless/ ath9k/ath9k. ko 7-generic/ kernel/ drivers/ net/wireless/ ath9k 7-generic/ kernel/ drivers/ net/wireless/ ath9k/ath9k. ko
walter@
./2.6.27-
./2.6.27-
walter@
./2.6.27-
./2.6.27-
./2.6.27-
./2.6.27-