Comments on: Howto enable wireless on ACER 4520 on Ubuntu Hardy

By: love acer

love acer — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:58:09 +0000

Acer AOD250-1197 10.1-Inch Blue Netbook
great netbook, substandard os
The computer itself is great. I love that its compact and has plenty of battery life. The touchpad is the least annoying of any laptop I’ve ever used. The windows 7 starter operating system, however is not. its a highly abbreviated version created for emerging markets in third world countries. There’s so much lacking. you cant even put up a picture on the desktop background. Save your money and buy the XP version. I wish I did.

By: ada

ada — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:31:38 +0000

That’s very nice
thank’s alot 4 your article

^_^

By: alexx

alexx — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:07:49 +0000

bump

Just checked again and still getting the same problem on loading either madwifi-nr-r3366+ar5007.tar.gz or madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz. Any help? The files seem tiny, only 918 and 938 bytes.

By: alexx

alexx — Mon, 25 May 2009 13:40:15 +0000

Have an Acer Extensa with wireless not working. I tried the above but the file downloaded seems not to be a tar file. Here is what I get:

acer@alexx:~/tmp$ tar xvf madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3698-20080604.tar.gz
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
acer@alexx:~/tmp$ file madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3698-20080604.tar.gz
madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3698-20080604.tar.gz: HTML document text
acer@alexx:~/tmp$

Also rather more obviously instructions 2 & 3 are using different file names?

By: pakpenyo

pakpenyo — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:06:24 +0000

Yes, with ubuntu 8.10 with latest update, the wifi button is not working. I don´t know how to make this works….

By: egoleo

egoleo — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:48:36 +0000

i dont know what that means but what i can say is that, i can switch it off and on. and it works fine for me.

By: Colin Brace

Colin Brace — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:38:09 +0000

Hi again ogoleo,

According to a guy on the ubuntu list, the WiFi on this notebook can only be switched on and off in Vista using the Acer software:

http://www.nabble.com/Acer-Aspire-4520-WiFi-button-tp20418283p20432634.html

Any help you can offer in getting to the bottom of this would be most helpful.

Thanks.

By: Colin Brace

Colin Brace — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:00:10 +0000

I am having the same problem mentioned above with the WiFi on/off switch. I just updated to 8.10 and installed “linux-backports-modules-2.6.27-7-generic” which contains the ath5k module, which I am understand supports the AR242x chipset.

The kernel sees the device (dmesg):

07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

but neither ifconfig nor NetworkManager doesn’t see it.

When I booted my previous Aspire, the WiFi interface was active by default, and a rather bright orange LED embedded in an on/off button at the front of the notebook indicated this.

But with my 4520, pressing the WiFi button has no effect. I would expect an LED to go on and off as well as the device becoming visible as a network device.

Anyone have any ideas for me?

By: roak417

roak417 — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:03:54 +0000

This tutorial works but i agree with Noizo, How do i set it to auto from system boot?

By: noizo

noizo — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:51:00 +0000

Hello.

Thank You for that tutorial.
I have done all like You told and it WORKS.
But, i have one issue. After every restart i have to enable wireless by giving last 2 command from tutorial to enable wireless.
I have a button to enable wireless on my ASUS X51RL but it does not work from linux. I have heard that i can assingn some script to keycode on keyboard but i dont know how
Anyway i’m only interested in enabling wireless on system start by auto, not by hand.
Thanks for this tut