Acer aspire 1 AOA150-ab . 120gb . I changed the pre-installed version of Linux Lite and ran installed 9.04 remix for 8 months and everything without exception worked well. Then i upgraded to 9.1 when i was given the option shown after i lodged on . Now i have no wireless at all , wont find the netgear router i have always been using all this time but my pc uses it daily still . I added 9.04 again from the Flash boot disk i 1st used 8 months ago and installed it again but this time alongside 9.1 in a partition but it that also now wont find wireless as before , even if i boot from the stick i cant find wireless now . The other thing i cant do now is boot up from 9.1 straight away , as i installed 9.04 after i upgraded, it boots 9.04 1st unless i sit and wait for the screen and scroll down to 9.1 , a pain each time . Can 9.04 be removed or is there a way for my netbook to ignore the top 3 items , all 9.04 and boot from the 4th which is listed after OTHER OPERATING SYSTEMS . I would be most grateful for help on either of these problems am im not that computer savy with anything other than basic instructions .

This is going to sound silly but for some reason the last time I booted the AA1 I looked at WICD and my netgear was showing and at 90% , I looked at WIDI RADAR and RUBIT WALAN MANAGER all had been installed from ubuntu software centre on 9.1 earlier in the week in the hope that one of them might find my Netgear router but none of them had before . It has to have something to do with the things I tried an hour or so before discovering it mysteriously worked . I will give the things I tried in between having no wireless showing at all to logging on and automatically being connected without having to touch anything , hopefully someone will recognise the thing that did it and will be of help to others and of course I would also love to know for my own peace of mind .

Booted from the usb stick 9.04 , no wireless .

Booted from the partition 9.04 , no wireless

Booted from the usb stick again , it worked , pop up saying netgear available , right clicked and selected it ,a few seconds with a rotating coloured circle in its place then 4 green vertical bars . Opened WebPages no prob . Since the upgrade to 9.1 this had also failed to find wireless although it was the origin of the original installation from the LINUX LITE to ubanto 9.04 , just replacing it and no partitions at all .

I then booted from partition that had 9.04 on and selected repair packages then tried again but still couldn’t find wireless signal

Booted again this time selecting 9.1 from the bootlist , this was the original partition and had originally been 9.04 and only been upgraded a few days ago when a message showed while I was using 9.04 , this time when it was booting I had a pop up saying CONNECTED TO NETGEAR , then it automatically opened on homepage without touching a thing .

Another weird thing is that on 9.1 some of the icons have now changed from when upgraded and wireless wasn’t working , the HELP icon was blue with a question mark in it , now it’s a rd and white lifebuoy like on a boat . The QUIT icon was a grey button not its red and square as I had on 9.04 . Other icons were also diferent but not all .

One last thing , when i upgraded from 9.04 to 9.1 i had black screen and nothing but onlight and fan afte an hour or two although i had shutdown and reebooted a couple of times in that time . Had to flash bios with 3310 from acer website , that worked ok no problems at all except for no wireless .

What did I do that was right cuz I have no idea .I don’t think there was anything else I did at all other than the steps above .
Now al I need to do so try to remove the old version 9.04 somehow so I don’t have to keep selecting 9.1 every time I boot .