Intrepid: Atheros WiFi card on Compaq F700

Well, on the last soul incarnation of Tango, using Ubuntu Hardy Heron, getting to work the WiFi card was impossible to me...
No matter what I have tried, nothing worked, actually, the card per worked, but I was unable to connect to any AP, no matter what encryption method the AP used, the happened if the AP was wide open.

But, on Intrepid things are completely different, I have been able to get the WiFI card up and working in no time.

Here are the steps:

1- Disable the "Support for Atheros 802.11 wireless LAN cards" on Hardware Drivers, and reboot your box.
2- Once it is back on, open a Terminal, and type:

sudo aptitude install linux-backports-modules-intrepid-generic

It will ask your password, this is what it prints on screen, that is, what it will do on the box:

esteban@tango:~/Desktop$ sudo aptitude install linux-backports-modules-intrepid-generic
[sudo] password for esteban: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-backports-modules-2.6.27-7-generic{a} 
  linux-backports-modules-intrepid-generic 
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1173kB of archives. After unpacking 3772kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] 

When that is over (you'll get your prompt back), reboot, and enjoy the WiFi connection.
According to lspci, I have this WiFi card specifically:

esteban@tango:~/Desktop$ lspci | grep Atheros
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
esteban@tango:~/Desktop$ 

Edit:
Feb 23rd 2009
This thread is related to all the posts titled "Updates dujour" (link 1 link 2) as up to now, all the applied updates on Intrepid Ibex haven't break anything functional on the install on the Compaq F700, specially, the WiFi!!!