AAO - Can I use the internal wireless?

Hi all,

Reading conflicting posts on this - is it possible to get wireless working on the built-in wireless adapter on my Acer Aspire One ?

Cheers!

 

Yes, it should be possible.. But it's very buggy!

 

Can you point me in the direction of the right 'build' and a guide please?

 

As stated it is very buggy. The XxX distro claims to have it working, but I tried with no luck, it really is much better to get the dell 1390 wifi card, works right when you boot up.

Here is the XxX guide: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index. ... try1020335

 

Everything I have read says no unless you are really good at fiddling and patching.

The Dell 1390 wireless card is the card to swap in instead as that is recognised by OSX.

 

I tried it too and had it working for a time with the Kismac method. But, OS X developped booting crashes after a few uses and also started to crash when shutting down. So, I took my Mac Mini Wifi card and put it in the AAO. After restoring the original kexts for the Atheros chipset, everything went smoothly from there; no more crashes, hang ups or random app closing.

A Dell adaptor could also do the trick and I ordered one soon after. When I received the Dell Card, I put it in the Mac Mini without any issue (I wanted to keep the option of running BackTrack on the AAO).

With a natively supported Wifi adaptor, the user experience on the AAO is very close to that of a Mac; it's worth it!

 

It seems that different releases of the AAO have different problems. On mine, the Wi-Fi is actually the best I've ever used.

 

I tried the instructions on the linked page and had several crashes until i restored the original kext - everything back to normal. Is this a common result?

No big problem for me though, i use ethernet until my dell card arrives.

 

I think it's a great WiFi implementation. Either shut off the power save or update the driver and it's a very sensitive solid WiFi implementation. Final thing make sure you don't block the vent holes. If the PC gets hot the WiFi card seems to be the first thing to shut down.