Hello to all users of the Acer Aspire 3680:
After a recent upgrade to intrepid, following a wireless access failure, I have descovered that the button on the front of this laptop now functions!
Please post your experience with your acer wireless button, and any "strange" functionality that you have.
here is what I consider "pertinent" info about my wireless;
Wireless chip: taken from the output of lshw -C network...
Code:
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: AR2413 802.11bg NIC
vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
physical id: 3
bus info: pci@0000:0a:03.0
logical name: wifi0
version: 01
serial: 00:19:7d:40:b8:c0
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath_pci ip=192.168.1.135 latency=168 maxlatency=28 mingnt=10 module=ath_pci multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
Button function, is rather interesting, (see this link for the full post on it's funcion, and other troubleshooting to get the chip to work).
But briefly.
Depending on how many times I "slide" the button, I get different returns from an <iwlist scan> - from getting only the master interfaces, to then getting a list of ALL "visible" the interfaces, and then ALL interfaces (including my "hidden" local network).
If you are having a similar thing please report back what you get (just as a matter of interest of course).
Remeber post you <lshw -C network> details, so as we can make a true comparison.
If anyone out there has problems with this card / system to get it working (allthough it allways worked straight out of the box for my instalations) drop me a line, and I will help were I can, or direct you to one of the various "experts" that are much more knowledgable than me (like the guys that helped me get my chip working again recently (thanks go to pytheas22 and kevdog)
David
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