[ubuntu-uk] I cannot get the wireless to work on Netbook.......
John Matthews
jakewc2 at sky.com
Sun Aug 23 12:32:54 BST 2009
Daniel Drummond wrote:
> John Matthews wrote:
>
>> Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
>>
>>
>>> FWIW I bought an Acer Aspire one last year and had HUGE problems getting
>>> it to connect to my wireless at ALL. In the end I took it back and
>>> swapped it for a Toshiba NB100 - which of course connected to the
>>> wireless first go!
>>> (I've always had Toshiba portables....)
>>>
>>>
>
> Funny how when drivers are needed for hardware under windows, it is
> normal. But when a driver is needed for Linux, it is a returnable offence.
>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I have to admit, it isnt that bad, at the beginning, when I bought it it
>> had Linux Lite on, there, and we put Ubuntu on it, it did have a few
>> problems then, and somebody helped put the Netbook version on, and that
>> seemed to help, but for some reason, we are back to the normal version.
>> That is something I am not sure how it happened. Normally I can connect
>> almost immediately to any network, it finds it, I add the passwords it
>> works. But it has done this twice now after an update. For the level of
>> experience I have, its a nifty little netbook. If I was more experienced
>> in Linux, I think I would pay more money for a better one.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>
> I have had a few wireless issues with my Acer Aspire One. It's just
> because the Atheros wireless chipset in it is still fairly new and when
> first released didn't have kernel support. Earlier this year I had to
> compile the latest Madwifi drivers to get it to work. However, I am now
> running the pre-release of Karmic, and the wireless is supported out of
> the box.
> These issues affect any netbook, or laptop with the same wireless
> chipset. The drivers have improved immensely up until now, and will
> only get better. Stick with it - its a very capable machine. I've used
> mine for all sorts, including developing programs to solve physics
> problems using numerical computation for my degree.
>
>
> Dan
>
>
>
Thanks Dan, that is useful to know. I cant wait to get Karmic, a bit
uncertain at the moment, to upgrade to it, just in case something goes
wrong, so will wait for the finished version to come out. I only hope
that Karmic works on my Laptop, that is an odd machine.
John.
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