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Recently I configured the wireless card in an acer aspire one, on a ubuntu 8.10 include, for the ubuntu version 9.04 it is recognized by default, well, at least I read it somewhere, but for version 8.04 will have to several steps: Setting Atheros AR5006EG card 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express acer aspire one 1. Install the kernel headers: $ sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) 2. Download and decompress from Atheros drivers for the console: $ wget "http://snapshots.madwifi-project.org/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz" $ tar -xzvf madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz $ cd madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6*/ 3. Compile and install: $ make $ sudo make install $ sudo modprobe ath_pci 4. Edit the file /etc/modules: $ sudo gedit /etc/modules And add ath_pci to the end, it shall be as follows: # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded # at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning wi...