Help Acer Aspire One

[intouchnathan]

i have wireless built into my laptop but wicd says that " no wireless networks found" i know it sees the driver because under hardware drivers it shows it and says that it is active or in use my settings for wic re ndiswapper and wlan0 thank you in advance....


HERE is ifconfig

nathan@nathan-laptop:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1e:68:e7:3c:f5
inet addr:192.168.1.7 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21e:68ff:fee7:3cf5/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:8764 errors:0 dropped:978832033 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5886 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:5777480 (5.7 MB) TX bytes:1077692 (1.0 MB)
Interrupt:219 Base address:0x2000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:82 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:82 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4092 (4.0 KB) TX bytes:4092 (4.0 KB)

i have done the whole mad wifi install but i cant get wicd to see that i have wireless ubuntu shows my wireless adapter and everything but i cant get it to work i got it to work a long time ago but i cant remember how now that i installed 8.0 linux please help

[D-cat]

MadWifi and Atheros 242x cards (which I think is in the AcerOne) still fight. I suggest you use ath5k instead.

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubu...tml#post683314