<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Joeri De Backer wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:722c55b70810240447read402gecb9c2e2256fa4f6@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div dir="ltr">Hello, You'll have to update your /etc/apt/sources.list... It is pointing to your cdrom. Point it to the right cd drive, or to the network if you have a cabled network connection. For example: deb <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://be.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/">http://be.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a> hardy universe Don't forget to do a sudo apt-get update before retrying... Regards, Joeri <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:30 AM, darkfena313 <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:darkfena313@gmail.com">darkfena313@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">i'm trying to get wifi to work on my aspire one. i followed the instructions from <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne</a>. when i get to this command; sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) this comes up afterwards; Ubuntu 8.04.1 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 (20080702.1)' in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter. the problem is there is not internal cd drive and the external drive that i am using is mounted somewhere else. does anyone know a solution to this problem so i can get my wifi working? thanks in advance -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote> </div> </div> </blockquote> thanks for the tip Joeri. everything is now as it should be :) </body> </html>