I originally had madwifi-hal running with Hardy; when I installed
Intrepid Alpha 6 as an upgrade, it continued to work fine until my next
restart, when ath5k was substituted. Much time spent trying to remove
ath5 with modprobe -r, but this would not work and I had to blacklist
it. I don't think that the two drivers could have been simultaneously
loaded, but if not, then I hold ath5k responsible for seriously
confusing my hardware (AR242X on Acer 5620Z). With ath5k the device was
configured as wmaster0 and was inaccessible to iwconfig et al. With
madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3861-20080903 (logical device ath0), at first it
responded to iwconfig etc. but would not transmit or receive. I tried
booting into Vista (spit!); again the network interface seemed
functional but would neither transmit nor recive. Eventually I tried
powering right down and restarting. That got it going. (Other sufferers
with a dead AR242X would do well to follow the instructions at
madwifi.org and to blacklist ath5k for the time being.)

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[intrepid] [Atheros AR5211] ath5k driver inoperative, wpa_supplicant never 
completes connection
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/276508
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