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.
Sorry for such a late reply on this but at the time you posted I did not have any similar hardware and now I do. Is the Apsire One the netbook?
Anyway I now have a netbook, a Toshiba NB100 which came pre-installed with Ubuntu 8.04.1 and which also uses Atheros wireless hardware, maybe even the same chipset - at least the driver looks the same.
When I first tried to get it to connect to my wireless network (which uses WPA) it would not do so and also seemed to forget the WPA key.
Subsequently I have discovered the Networking Applet that offers to do the setting up is the GNOME applet for NetworkManager which is doing the work in the background.
The applet is able to make the hardware scan for access points because I get a graphical list with signal strength and I am able to choose mine by ESSID but that is as far as it would get - it would not connect.
After that I discovered that if I added the WPA key to the /etc/network/interfaces file and ran:
$ ifdown ath1 $ ifup ath1
it would associate with the access point and it started working correctly. This needs to be done at every boot so I have added these lines to my rc.local file, meanwhile I have filed a Ubuntu bug for network manager: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343962
The kernel is a Ubuntu one - 2.6.24-19-lpia
HTH, Steve.