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.