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By: fractil

fractil — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:40:27 +0000

These are the steps I took to get my wireless card & led working in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy):

** Install build-essential
$> sudo apt-get install build-essential

** Change to your home directory
$> cd ~

** Download madwifi (adjust url accordingly to download most recent snapshot)
$> sudo wget http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz

** Disable current Atheros HAL & support for Atheros 802.11 wireless cards
System -> Administration -> Hardware Drivers

** Make sure that ath_hal module is not loaded in the future (e.g. DISABLED_MODULES=”ath_hal”)
$> sudo vim /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common

** Unpack the downloaded tar.gz
$> tar -xzvf madwifi-hal-.tar.gz

** Rename directory created by tar process
$> mv madwifi-hal- madwifi

** Change to the new madwifi scripts directory
$> cd madwifi/scripts

** Execute madwifi-unload and find-madwifi-modules.sh scripts
$> sudo ./madwifi-unload
$> sudo ./find-madwifi-modules.sh $(uname -r)

** Change to the main madwifi directory
$> cd ..

** Get rid of old crap
$> make clean

** Build the modules
$> make
$> sudo make install
$> sudo modprobe ath_pci

** ath0 & wifi0 should now be listed as interfaces
$> ifconfig

** wlan’s should now be visible from the panel network applet. You may also scan for wlan’s via the command line
$> sudo wlanconfig ath0 list scan

** Updates or upgrades that modify the kernel will effect madwifi. After updating/upgrading repeat the steps from ** Build the modules

** Load ath_pci module automatically. Add ath_pci after last line of file.
$> sudo vim /etc/modules

** Restart
$> sudo shutdown -r now

** Manually load module if you do not wish to restart
$> sudo modprobe ath_pci

** Add the following two lines to the end of /etc/sysctl.conf to get wireless card led to blink based on traffic

dev.wifi0.ledpin=3
dev.wifi0.softled=1

** Restart
$> sudo shutdown -r now

** Manually reload if you do not wish to restart
$> sudo sysctl -p

Power can be tweaked, my battery lasts 5+ hours with 6 cell battery during moderate computing…

Cheers!

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By: evaki

evaki — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:31:23 +0000

Unfortunately I have no idea about Linux … but I managed to prodeed to the so called advanced version, where clicking with the right mouse I get to System etc.
I also found a list of software that can be checked and loaded.
After loading a program named cast podder the message came: cannot run, because file manager Nautilus does not ran…
Can anyone help, please !

By: infader

infader — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:53:32 +0000

Clearly i have seen here enlightened linux users,although i agree we sometimes have to venture in unknown ways,can’t always afford the cost.
I had linpus installed,didn’t had trouble installing packages for programming(only java,python and sql) when i gave ssh access to a friend(later told me he was trying to install kde)!!POW…no filesystem detected,well gave it a try to ubuntu 8.04.1 hardy heron…wireless problems,slow,a lot slow,graphic problems,hibernating problems,tried most tweaks,solve ones found anothers…can’t blame me for trying and learned a lot in the process,but not viable yet…never had used ubuntu but i will try it in another more “standard” laptop,just liked what i have seen

By: funkbag

funkbag — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:52:10 +0000

Hi, I also prefer Ubuntu, but since installed 8.04.1 i have no lan connection and so i cannot go on, ….
hope for help

By: macdamage

macdamage — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:01:49 +0000

Heads up Guys go download mandriva 2009 one. Itl run live cd and if you want live install. Ive had it running trouble free all day on my AAO. It just works simple as no need to go into terminal & imgetting about 2hrs battery on wireless only downside is a minute boot up but hey pros&cons.

By: bt72

bt72 — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:37:53 +0000

I have installed ubuntu on the aspire one and am very happy. I followed a guide from the ubuntu website to get my wireless card working (as well as it? light). I was also able to get the usb issue sorted via this same guide. It was all to easy.
The only negative I can see is by moving to ubuntu my battery time decreased to 1hr 50 mins.

the web address for aspire one support with ubuntu is:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne

By: useopenid

useopenid — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:57:29 +0000

I wanted to try to stay with linpus and minimally change my aspire one, but it seems like every time I turn around, there’s something missing. The latest thing is that I need a vpn; I go through some of the instructions for installing one, and they don’t work or things are missing — basic things that seem to be part of the normal packages (e.g. “pon” and “poff” in the pptp package). I’m not sure whether it’s more work to try to graft stuff onto linpus or to try to get another distro to work with the aspire one…

By: baekster

baekster — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:33:18 +0000

First of all, let’s start by saying that Linpus, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Gentoo are all different distros, not different OS. The OS (kernel) is Linux. Note that with enough knowledge, you can tweak any of these distros to include custom drivers, remove custom drivers, remove unnecessary packages, change the boot process (udev, sysv, etc.). It’s so plainly obvious that a distro customized and optimized for Asus (Linpus) works much better than stock distros of any kind. Personally, I use Ubuntu (I’m an experienced user of most distros–Fedora/RH, Debian, Slackware, Suse, Gentoo. And I just happen to like apt/dpkg pair better than others and more frequent release dates than debian (and debian unstable can become a little too unstable sometimes). And others will like Gentoo since they can optimize the hell of whatever they need. Some like Fedora because it is probably the best supported distro and perhaps arguably best-integrated security solutions like SELinux and easy-to-use iptables, etc.

So let’s encourage the effort and give valid opinion of the article. (Oh, did you know that you can cut the startup time by removing these modules, these services, switching the boot method, changing the filesystem, etc.) rather than uninformed “keep Linpus as is” comments.