Ok, with Ubuntu 8.10, I,ve got a new Acer Aspire 5515 with this seemingly very difficult wifi card, AR242X. I've tried everything in these posts with no results for wifi. WICD is loaded and works with hard wire but no wifi. Drivers checked show that the card is using the driver 5xxxx for AR242X. The origional driver was deactivated. My other notebook shows a wifi station present but this one can't see it.
iwconfig shows:
mashid@ubuntu:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr
ff Fragment thr=2352 B
Power Management
ff
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
pan0 no wireless extensions.
What should I do next?
Thanks, <> Jim
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