I ran in to this same problem, the issue is that BT5 uses Grub2 which doesn't use a menu.lst, instead it uses a grub.cfg file which is automatically generated using update-grub. This change wasn't...

After I did this I have no wireless interfaces showup under iwconfig and my eth0 only shows up after running wicd. how can I get madwifi-ng to detect my wireless card?

I followed the steps on the site #mfBaranian# linked and now when I do a lspci it shows both ath5k and ath_pci as Kernel modules even though I added ath5k to my /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and...