This is what I did to get
MadWifi working on a freshly-installed Debian Sarge system:
Contents of /etc/apt/sources.list:# Sarge
deb
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sarge main
deb-src
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sarge main
deb
http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free
# Sarge Backports
deb
http://www.backports.org/debian sarge-backports main contrib non-free
Commands:$ su
# apt-get update
# apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.8-3-386
# reboot
$ su
# apt-get -t sarge-backports install madwifi-source
# apt-get -t sarge-backports install madwifi-tools
# m-a prepare
# m-a a-i madwifi
# modprobe ath_pci