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.
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