Ubuntu on AAO wireless issues

OK, first and foremost, I am a complete Linux noob.
However, I would like to try and get Ubuntu up and running on my AAO. So far, so good, 8.10 is installed and working well, but the wireless refuses to get up and working.
After installing Ubuntu, I began following the instructions here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne
So I make sure I am doing it right, let me recap.
First, I open the terminal and copy :
wget http://snapshots.madwifi-project.org/ma ... ent.tar.gz
and let it do it's thing.

Then I enter the following into the terminal:
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)
tar -xzf madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz
cd madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6*/

And then finally:
make
sudo make install
modprobe ath_pci

Once these have finished, nothing seems to have changed. SO I continue and enter the following:
# /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 with "#" are ignored.

fuse
lp
ath_pci

However, as it runs it's little thing, when it gets to 'fuse', the next line is 'bash: fuse: command not found'
and after lp, the line reads 'lp: Error- no default destination available.'
Then when I try to get the LED's working, the above page says to 'create /etc/pm/sleep.d/00wireless', but when I try to create it in that folder, I am told I do not have permission.

HELP!

 

I tried this and got wifi working but it did not hold the WEP passphrase.
You must use the latest madwifi drivers.

I then tried Mandriva 2009.0 and it worked straight off.
If was to install another Linux distro on the AAO I would do a Mandriva KDE 2009.0 but I'm waiting for 2009.1 due in March as it will have more fixes etc.

 

I just compiled and installed the latest drivers from linuxwireless.org, and the ath5k driver works a lot better now. The wifi LED works now with this driver, and wireless dropouts don't seem to occur very often anymore when under heavy bittorrent load, and Wicd auto-reconnects when they do. I'm using a distro based on Debian Lenny. Note that compiling them all takes quite a while on a AA1.

I have another Acer laptop that uses the ath9k driver, and that got the LED working for that, too.

 

i had the same problem has you have had try and install sickboys kernel that worked for me and now the wifi works a treat

 

I installed Easy Peasy 1.0 instead. Here really everything, even the internal mic using Skype, works, and the Wifi seems much more stable, though the wifi light does not shine And I have to add, this is Ubuntu 8.10.

 

Try reading about the compat-wireless libraries on LinuxWireless.org. I was having Wireless issues on EP after install and nothing seemed to work. I uninstalled the linux-backports and then downloaded and built compat-wireless according to their directions and wireless works flawlessly now, even the wifi LED on the front switch works!

 

I gave up. I ried Ubuntu, no go.
Got it working in Kubuntu, but the OS was slow as hell.

Trying Win 7 now.

 

Have been running Bittorrent for hours at Starbucks without any trouble at all using ath5k from the compat-wireless tarballs at linuxwireless.org. The ath5k driver is in rapid development, so they have ironed out some severe issues recently.