Dave,

aptitude install firmware-atheros 
or 
apt-get install firmware-atheros

will choose the most recent version available. If that is not what you need, 
then it's probably easier to use aptitude as a interactive application (start 
without any option) and do the downgrade manually - with aptitude, any 
dependency conflicts can be resolved automatically or manually, the latter is 
lots useful with backports. 

It would require to learn the aptitude key navigation, but it's worth it.

For a quick shot you can try to download the package file 
(firmware-atheros_0.43~bpo70+1_all.deb) and install it with dpkg:

dpkg -i firmware-atheros_0.43~bpo70+1_all.deb

but if i recall right, this would not solve any dependency conflicts 
automagically, it only warns you and aborts. Make sure that general updates do 
not upgrade the package version too (you may put a file into 
/etc/apt/öpreferences.d). With aptitude, set the package to 'hold' (h).

(i didn't use backports or downgrades in ages, sorry can't be more specific)

(plus i'm on archlinux right now, can't lookup things easily)


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