I always read the change log for the Kernel at least before I apply an
update and thus I knew my ATH5K support would disappear.  But I've long
felt that update-manager or some other tool should preserve the last few
changelogs locally so that when you applied an update and something
suddenly stopped working you had a way to go back through your locally
kept logs to try to determine the root cause.

I think the note here should have been much more explanatory. Something
to the effect of "You WILL lose wireless connectivity and must take the
following steps to restore it"

For my personal situation, merely installing the LBM package did not
instantly restore connectivity.  While I'm still troubleshooting and
expect I'll eventually get either that module, MadWiFi or NdisWrapper to
work, I can see that for many people, especially who only have wireless
connectivity on their laptop/netbook that this could be terribly
frustrating.

That said, all of you should be mindful that you are currently running a
pre-release version of Intrepid, that this is not GA software and that
you have put yourself in a unique situation by electing to use this
distribution.  The goal for everybody is to have stable software in six
more days.  I've experienced the performance problems with the ATH5K
module that this thread are addressing and agree that stability for
release must be a paramount goal.

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Disabling ath5k in 2.6.27
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/288148
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