reactivating eee900 wifi card after debian kernel upgrade

Reactivating EEE900 wi-fi card after Debian kernel upgrade

At least when I write this page, upgrading the kernel of Debian (Lenny/testing)
on my Asus EEE900 will stop the work of the wi-fi card. There are some steps to
reactivate the wi-fi connections. Upgrading to kernel 2.6.26.x should fix the
situation, afaik.
Check if madwifi drivers repository is in /etc/apt/sources.list
# Testing
deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
Use module-assistant to build drivers


# su

# apt-get update

# apt-get install madwifi-source

# apt-get install madwifi-tools

# m-a prepare

# m-a a-i madwifi

If not rebooting and you need to load the module


# modprobe ath_pci

It should work now, with the use of Wicd rather than Network Manager (NN
doesn't support static ip).