[CentOS] madwifi not working for 5.2 x64

[Michael A. Peters]

Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, sumit agarwal wrote:
> 
>> i installed madwifi on 5.2 x64 but it dosent seem to be working
>> any clues?
> 
> For people with madwifi issues or looking for a better solution to Atheros 
> support, the elrepo repository is tesing new backported ath5k drivers that 
> Red Hat is preparing for RHEL 5.4. We think we have fixed all known 
> issues, but to help us with improved Atheros support in CentOS 5.4 we need 
> to make sure Red Hat ships something that works across all boards.
> 
> So if you have an Atheros chipset and want to help test the newer ath5k 
> driver, go to:
> 
>      http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el5/i386/RPMS/
> or  http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el5/x86_64/RPMS/
> 
> and try the kmod-ath5k and kmod-mac80211 packages for your kernel. (First 
> remove the madwifi driver though, to make sure there is no interference a 
> reboot may help too).
> 

I'll test it on my i386 for sure.
Mine is AT&T Plug-n-share

I also have a PCI version I could test on my x86_64 though I'd have to 
find where I put it (I ran ethernet into my home office years ago) if 
x86_64 really isn't much untested.

Is this a non tainting driver?