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lan ok no wireless

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i have a acer aspire 1 mini laptop.think it has atheros ar5006.i cant get wireless going... lan and everything elsw works fine i am very new to ubuntu..
thanks for any help

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Caesar (shcaesar) said : 		#1

In a terminal, try the command: "ifconfig -a" to check out if wireless is on.
You should have info about "wlan0" if it's on, otherwise, it's off.
And to make it up, you can issue the command: "sudo ifconfig wlan0 up"; you need the password for this command line.

If they don't work, you first have to check out your wifi is physically on by the command: "sudo lshw" (if it says you don't have the program "lshw", you can install it with the command: "sudo apt-get install lshw").
Second, when you wifi is physically on, you need to load a driver for it with the command: "sudo modprobe ...", the three points indicate a module name corresponding to your wifi which you need to figure out by yourself.

Hope this is helpful!

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#2

Hi,

Here is the guide for installing Ubuntu (including configuring wireless) on the Aspire One:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne

Regards,

Mark

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