Re: Unload Ath5k module

[Greg Sieranski <greg sieranski quoininc com>]

Greg Sieranski wrote:
> I have a Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5418 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless 
> PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)wireless card and at this time the ath5k 
> driver does not support it. I have been having success using madwifi 
> (ath_pci) and would like to unload the ath5k module for now. Is it 
> just a simple modprobe -e ath5k? Will that prevent it from loading 
> back up on startup?
>
> Thanks,
> Greg Sieranski
I went into telinit 1 and the rmmod ath5k. I then blacklisted it echo 
"blacklist ath5k" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist. This seems to have worked

gs