Laptop with wireless "no problems" - what's the advisable distro?
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I have two Acer laptops (Aspire 3680 with Broadcom and Aspire 5100 with Atheros) and i managed to get it working in the 3680, but the day after, it wouldn't work anymore.
I've searched in forums and then installed wicd and other advised programs, but nothing worked.
Then, i emailed the Acer Suport and they said that their computers was shipped with Micro$oft and thus they wouldn't advise nor recommend any linux distro nor any other solution; just told me to use the recovery partition to reinstall Micro$h*t!
There's no need to tell i've replied saying they'd never see another euro from me again!
I've tried with Kubuntu 8.04 and i'll try now other distros, just to see what happens.
My Acer 3680 has a Atheros AR5007EG, it isn't supported by any native driver, except a hacked beta release. I use ndiswrapper, because the native driver doesn't allow my switch or light to work.
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