Using Atheros WiFi in Ubuntu
One of the thing that the Ubuntu lacked is a driver for my Atheros WiFi in my Acer laptop. Recently I've been trying to make use of an Asus eeePC, which also had an Atheros WiFi. To my surprise, its WiFi is operational when booting from Xandros (eeePC customized, and debian OS-based). But Xandros is too much watered down for my usage (I need to install development environment for libsnmp9 and also need a working mysql server), so I'm installing Ubuntu in a Maxtor Basics Portable drive. Actually I installed a Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn, with KDE instead of Gnome desktop, but it shouldn't matter much (I hope.. thats the only installer I got back home). Reading this wiki article about Installing Ubuntu in eeePC , finally I found that madwifi is the solution. To quote the steps : sudo apt-get install build-essential wget http://snapshots.madwifi.org/special/madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz tar zxvf madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz cd madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007 make clean make sudo mak...