Blacklisting a HARDWARE device?

[Kelly Miller <lightsolphoenix@xxxxxxxxx>]

Okay, here's the situation; after fiddling and fiddling and fiddling 
with this stupid wireless network card in this laptop (AR5007EG), I went 
out and bought a PCMCIA card to replace it (AR5212).  The problem I'm 
currently having is that since both hardware devices have Atheros 
chipsets, they both want to claim the ath5k/madwifi driver (depending on 
which I try to use).  Is there any way short of ripping out the hardware 
I can tell Fedora to ignore the former completely, and act as if it 
wasn't even plugged in at all, so I can get the driver to work with the 
latter?  At this point, the former is sending goofy error messages which 
the system seems to be confusing with the messages sent by the latter, 
causing all sorts of problems...

Oh, and as for the NetworkManager thing I mentioned the other day; 
nm-applet does not allow one to state what the encryption protocol is 
for WPA-PSK, which leads to problems if you're not using TKIP (and I'm 
not).  knetworkmanager allows this.