On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:44:26 +0000 Steve Fosdick lists@pelvoux.nildram.co.uk allegedly wrote:
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 17:34 +0000, Richard Lewis wrote:
Hello ALUG,
How's anyone else's experience with wireless on their Acer Aspire One? I'm running Debian unstable on mine and wireless is quite dodgey.
Having just invested in an Aspire One I can now add to that.
I'm running xubuntu (8.10) with the kuki (sickboy) 2.6.28 kernel and madwifi drivers and the wireless is rock solid. I even have the wireless LEDs working. I'm getting consistent transfer rates of 600-720 KB/s in file transfer on my local (54Meg) wireless connection.
Several sites reported problems with the ath5k driver which is why I chose the ath_pci madwifi drivers - though I confess I didn't test the ath5k. I went for the kuki kernel because it helps to get everything else (including sound) working. There are known (and reported) bugs in the wired ethernet connection with kernel 2.6.27-11. It works if you go back to 2.6.27-7, but other things like sound then break.
The only thing I can't get to work now is memory sticks (or memory stick pro) in the right hand card reader, sd cards work fine for me.
Battery life is a tad disappointing though. I'm getting just over 2 hours so far.
Oh, and a blue xubuntu desktop on a blue AAO looks really cool...
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