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Sat May 9 19:05:09 UTC 2009
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 11:55 AM, David Dreggors <ddreggors at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> Since 2.6.18-128 (centos 5.3) ath5k is included in the kernel as a
>> regular module. it has been backported.
>
> Yes, and this is the one I have to blacklist as it does not work and
> interferes with new madwifi.
>
> I have never tried the kmod-ath5k and in fact, yum does not even see it
> when I do a "yum search ath5k" or "yum search kmod_ath5k". I assume that
> this is due to the fact that it is "IN" the kernel and not an external
> module?

It's still in the ElRepo ( http://elrepo.org ) testing section.  You
can install it by:

yum --enablerepo=elrepo-testing kmod-ath5k

I believe you have already set up the elrepo repository.  For people
that have not, it can be downloaded from:

http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el5/

Akemi