you could have done it like this. First to get it working again you need to go to "applications; accessories, Terminal. Once you get to the terminal type "modprobe ath_pci"
no quotes. Then your card should work. Then in the terminal type "sudo nano /etc/rc.local" again no quotes. then right before the line "exit o" type
"modprobe ath_pci". That make your wireless card drivers autoload at startup. If you have any trouble just tell me.
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