On Wednesday 21 November 2007, Kelly Miller wrote: > 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... > Can you not go into BIOS and disable it? Most systems I've seen give you an option of disabling built-in hardware in the bios.
