How to set up Wireless connection

[Wiesje]

Hi,

Just installed 8.10 on Acer Aspire One.
But I don't know how to get Wireless connection to work.
I did try

sudo aptitude install linux-backports-modules-intrepid

And also

sudo aptitude install linux-backports-modules-intrepid-generic

I did completely shut down and booted again.
But I don't see no wireless networks showing up in Network Connections.
So did add a connection manually, but how to connect to it? And where can I find what networks ar nearby?

- yeah, I'm a first-time Linux user -

[nothingspecial]

Check you have the atheros card that Acers use.

lspci -v

It should return

Ethernet controller : Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter

somewhere near the end.

If it does copy and paste the following commands into your terminal with a wired connection.

Download the latest madwifi snapshot.

wget http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz

Unzip it

tar -xvf madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz

navigate to the extracted file

cd madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3861-20080903

If you`ve not got the tools necessary for compiling get them

sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)

Then compile it

sudo make

sudo make install

load the module

sudo modprobe ath_pci

make it load every time you boot

gksudo gedit /etc/modules

then copy and paste this to the bottom of that file

ath_pci

save
exit
reboot

[Wiesje]

Check you have the atheros card that Acers use.

lspci -v

It should return

Ethernet controller : Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter

somewhere near the end.

If it does copy and paste the following commands into your terminal with a wired connection.

Download the latest madwifi snapshot.

wget http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz

First step: allright, it returned this ethernet controller.
But when trying to download madwifi snapshot it returns:
Resolving snapshots.madwifi.org... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `snapshots.madwifi.org'

[nothingspecial]

madwifi.org appears to be down at the moment. Try later.

[pasencorelui]

madwifi.org is unreachable. is there another wau to get madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6 ? Is someone can share or indicate a mirror to get it?

Thank's

[pasencorelui]

madwifi.org is unreachable. is there another wau to get madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6 ? Is someone can share or indicate a mirror to get it?

Thank's

[Wiesje]

madwifi.org is unreachable. is there another wau to get madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6 ? Is someone can share or indicate a mirror to get it?

Thank's

Yeah, would be much appreciated. It's still offline

[ngirala]

I found this link to download, but haven't tried it yet. http://www.4shared.com/file/58847723...080801tar.html
Good luck

[ngirala]

I confirm that this download works
http://www.4shared.com/file/58847723...080801tar.html
following this instructions
http://www.mclarenx.com/2008/06/17/a...ntu-linux-804/
Tried it with ubuntu 8.10

[nothingspecial]

Madwifi is back up. Try again