CentOS - Jul 2006 - Installed plus kernel, kudzu did not see atheros wifi

I took the dive and installed the CentosPlus kernel.  I remembered that 
I could always boot with the old kernel if things went south.

But on reboot, kudzu wanted to delete the Atheros config.  I told it not 
to, but....

Would a simple 'freshen' of madwifi-0.9.1-24.el4.at.i386.rpm ?

an rpm -qa |grep wifi returns:

madwifi-kmdl-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL-0.9.1-24.el4.at
madwifi-0.9.1-24.el4.at
madwifi-hal-kmdl-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL-0.9.1-24.el4.at