I'm still strugging to find a solution to the problems of the AR5006EG
wireless on the Acer Aspire One.
It seems that the driver is not being loaded, no matter what I do, so I
considered the options.
Using ndiswrapper and a windows driver - not simple, as I didn't buy the
windows system. I can find several download pages but they all want me to
install a windows program to investigate the hardware so that they can give me
the correct driver. Yesterday I did find
http://www.atheros.cz/download.php?atheros=AR5006EG&system=1from which I found
a driver and an inf file. I tried installing these with ndiswrapper this
morning, but it says it can't find a sys file. I've never used ndiswrapper
before, so it's possible I'm missing something.
Using madwifi - there have been reports that on some systems the madwifi
driver gives better results than the kernel driver. I installed madwifi and
kmod-madwifi. What must I do to make the system use this instead of the
kernel driver?
Lastly, I checked ifconfig, which now lists wifi0 and wlan0. wifi0 has no
inet addr: at all. wlan0 has an inet6 addr: - I do not use inet6 at this
stage. Is there something I must do to disable inet6 before it can get an
inet4 address?
I have tried everything I know or have read about. Any help would be
gratefully received.
Anne