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    Angry ACER ASPIRE 5050 wifi -- unable to activate

    its been about 2 months since i changed over to ubuntu. everythings going on fine got all drivers to work except for my wifi.

    my laptop specs are :

    ACER ASPIRE 5050
    AMD Turion 64x2 1.8Ghz
    Atheros 802.11b/g wireless lan

    its the Atheros thats giving me the problem. i'm unable to install the driver for it. tried to use Ndiswrapper but that dint help, tried to use Madwifi drivers for the card, but of no use. i'm using Gusty 7.04 version my kernel is 2.6.22-14 if its of any help

    any suggestion will be greatly appreciated

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    Last edited by nautaforever; June 23rd, 2009 at 03:20 PM. Reason: EDIT : i was using gusty at this time

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    Re: ACER ASPIRE 5050 wifi -- unable to activate

    ndiswrapper is probable the best way

    try looking here:
    http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/j...3/id,list_c-f/

    you could also try this in terminal
    Code:
    sudo -i
    echo ndiswrapper >> /etc/modules
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    Re: ACER ASPIRE 5050 wifi -- unable to activate

    Quote Originally Posted by nautaforever View Post
    its been about 2 months since i changed over to ubuntu. everythings going on fine got all drivers to work except for my wifi.

    my laptop specs are :

    ACER ASPIRE 5050
    AMD Turion 64x2 1.8Ghz
    Atheros 802.11b/g wireless lan

    its the Atheros thats giving me the problem. i'm unable to install the driver for it. tried to use Ndiswrapper but that dint help, tried to use Madwifi drivers for the card, but of no use. i'm using Gusty 7.04 version my kernel is 2.6.22-14 if its of any help

    any suggestion will be greatly appreciated

    UBUNTU ADDICT
    I have the same problem and unfortunately there is no solid solution as of now!(at least for Gutsy!) I have been trying to get this sorted out for he past one year, I had read in an Ubuntu documentation site that the Atheros card has been blacklisted, ndiswrapper may give you temporary solutions but it doesn't work most of the times! I was hoping Hardy might sort out these problems but Hardy was too heavy for my machine(Acer Aspire 5573ZNWXMi) and I had to revert to Gutsy! I use a cable and plug it in all the time

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    Re: ACER ASPIRE 5050 wifi -- unable to activate

    Quote Originally Posted by aswinms View Post
    I have the same problem and unfortunately there is no solid solution as of now!(at least for Gutsy!) I have been trying to get this sorted out for he past one year, I had read in an Ubuntu documentation site that the Atheros card has been blacklisted, ndiswrapper may give you temporary solutions but it doesn't work most of the times! I was hoping Hardy might sort out these problems but Hardy was too heavy for my machine(Acer Aspire 5573ZNWXMi) and I had to revert to Gutsy! I use a cable and plug it in all the time
    Ashwin try wicd

    http://wicd.sourceforge.net/

    http://wicd.sourceforge.net/wiki/doku.php?id=faq

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    Re: ACER ASPIRE 5050 wifi -- unable to activate

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    Quote Originally Posted by nautaforever View Post
    its been about 2 months since i changed over to ubuntu. everythings going on fine got all drivers to work except for my wifi.

    my laptop specs are :

    ACER ASPIRE 5050
    AMD Turion 64x2 1.8Ghz
    Atheros 802.11b/g wireless lan

    its the Atheros thats giving me the problem. i'm unable to install the driver for it. tried to use Ndiswrapper but that dint help, tried to use Madwifi drivers for the card, but of no use. i'm using Gusty 7.04 version my kernel is 2.6.22-14 if its of any help pls send me drivers


    any suggestion will be greatly appreciated

    UBUNTU ADDICT

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    Re: ACER ASPIRE 5050 wifi -- unable to activate

    the problem solved itself after i installed versions that came after Gusty.

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    Re: ACER ASPIRE 5050 wifi -- unable to activate

    Where i can download the acer aspire 5050 battery driver?
    I got the acer 5050 battery at http://www.sales-battery.com/laptop-...spire-5050.htm but it does not work well, my friend told me to download new drivers.

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