So recently my roommate ordered an ASUS EEE PC, because he was impatient and did not receive shipping notification he went ahead and ordered another one from a different distributor. Soon after he realized that both would be arriving on the same day. I was on the fence about owning one, but I took this as a sign to go ahead and buy one. Finally, they both arrived and it was immediately apparent that a different OS needed to be installed. Ubuntu was the obvious choice, but as usual there were some driver problems, one of them being wireless.

As stated in a couple articles back, I recently made the move to Ubuntu 7.10 Gusty Gibbon. There were a few hurdles I had to get over along the way and I wanted to share with you the solutions that worked for me.

The title of this post states that I'm using an Acer Aspire 5100 and that I was having difficulties setting up the internal AR5006EG wireless controller. Luckily, Google is a great resource and by mixing a few suggestions together I was able to get online. I have not tested it out but I believe that the following steps would work on any system that is built on the Debian Platform or use ndiswrapper.

Free at last, Free at last!

So two days ago I decide that I could live life without a Microsoft Operating System. I have tried many times in the past to make the move to Linux. At first I did the original Linux live CD, Knoppix and then some other random live CD's that followed suit. Keep in mind that this was well over 4 or 5 years ago, maybe more. About 2 years ago I started hearing about Ubuntu. I once again picked up the live cd and was quite please with being able to get familiar with linux in a somewhat simple and user friendly environment. There was good hardware support and an attractive user interface.