Fixing wifi in an Acer Aspire 5315

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Procedure used on Klikit RC-2 CD version

From this link, downloaded the file xp3264-7.4.2.111-whql.zip.

Extracted to it's own folder. (In Konqueror, navigated to Downloads folder where zip file is located, right mouse cilcked on zip file, Extract-> Extract to xp3264-7.4.2.111-whql)

Opened a root terminal window (Launch->System->Root Actions->Konsole-Superuser Mode)

Note: By using the "Root Actions" Konsole and Konqueror, "sudo" is not needed

cd'd to the downloaded file folder.

(root@twisted-klikit:/home/rgartin# cd Downloads/xp3264-7.4.2.111-whql)

From the "Konsole" window anything after the # in BOLD minus the ) is the command

ran apt-get to obtain ndiswrapper

(root@twisted-klikit:/home/rgartin/Downloads/xp3264-7.4.2.111-whql# apt-get install ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9)

did an ls -la (lowercase L)

(root@twisted-klikit:/home/rgartin/Downloads/xp3264-7.4.2.111-whql# ls -la)

total 3392

drwxr-xr-x 2 rgartin rgartin 4096 2008-06-21 22:03 .

drwxr-xr-x 4 rgartin rgartin 4096 2008-06-21 22:30 ..

-rw-r--r-- 1 rgartin rgartin 1333248 2008-04-15 00:00 athw.sys

-rw-r--r-- 1 rgartin rgartin 1711072 2008-04-15 00:00 athwx.sys

-rw-r--r-- 1 rgartin rgartin 28633 2008-04-21 07:42 netathw.cat

-rw-r--r-- 1 rgartin rgartin 143470 2008-04-15 00:00 netathw.inf

-rw-r--r-- 1 rgartin rgartin 28661 2008-04-21 07:42 netathwx.cat

-rw-r--r-- 1 rgartin rgartin 194981 2008-04-15 00:00 netathwx.inf

ran ndiswrapper using netathw.inf

(root@twisted-klikit:/home/rgartin/Downloads/xp3264-7.4.2.111-whql# ndiswrapper -i netathw.inf)

opened a root konqueror window (Launch->System->Root Actions->Konqueror-Superuser Mode) and navigated to (/etc/modprobe.d)

opened the "blacklist" file with kwrite and added:

# Atheros AR5007EG (Ubuntu detects it as AR5006EG so we use ndiswrapper...)"

blacklist ath_pci

after the "blacklist eth1394" entry, then saved the file.

then I ran the following ndiswrapper commands:

(root@twisted-klikit:/home/rgartin/Downloads/xp3264-7.4.2.111-whql# ndiswrapper -ma)

(root@twisted-klikit:/home/rgartin/Downloads/xp3264-7.4.2.111-whql# ndiswrapper -mi)

(root@twisted-klikit:/home/rgartin/Downloads/xp3264-7.4.2.111-whql# ndiswrapper -m)

after rebooting, I was able to see wlan0 when using ifconfig -a

(root@twisted-klikit:/home/rgartin/Downloads/xp3264-7.4.2.111-whql# ifconfig -a)

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:24:3D:0F:DD

UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

Interrupt:16na

lo Link encap:Local Loopback

inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0

UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1

RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:7E:75:DA:1A

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

Interrupt:17 Memory:8c100000-8c110000

In the "Wireless Assistant" I could see my network (twisted) and another one but could not connect to either one.

Tried configuring "wlan0" using "KNetworkManager" but it wouldn't take.

Upon furhter research, I came across this thread in the Ubuntu forums.

Using the last post on this page as an example, I edited my /etc/network/interfaces file Again, I opened a "root konqueror" window

and navigating to "/etc/network" and opened the "interfaces" file and added the info for my network.

auto wlan0

iface wlan0 inet dhcp

pre-up ifconfig wlan0 down

wireless-essid MY_ESSID

wireless-key WEP_KEY_HERE

wireless-mode managed

saved the file and rebooted my laptop again. When I logged back in, I was wireless finally.

(root@twisted-klikit:/home/rgartin/Downloads/xp3264-7.4.2.111-whql# ifconfig -a)

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:24:3D:0F:DD

UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

Interrupt:16

lo Link encap:Local Loopback

inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0

UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1

RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:7E:75:DA:1A

inet addr:192.168.2.3 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:1597 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:1559 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:1434948 (1.3 MB) TX bytes:322738 (315.1 KB)

Interrupt:17 Memory:8c100000-8c110000

Procedure used on fresh install of Klikit RC-2 DVD version

From this link, downloaded the file xp3264-7.4.2.111-whql.zip.

Extracted to it's own folder. (In Konqueror, navigated to Downloads folder where zip file is located, right mouse cilcked on zip file, Extract-> Extract to xp3264-7.4.2.111-whql)

Opened a root terminal window (Launch->System->Root Actions->Konsole-Superuser Mode)

Note: By using the "Root Actions" Konsole and Konqueror, "sudo" is not needed

cd'd to the downloaded file folder.