Help with Wireless on Linux

Ok, so i'll cut to the chase.

I have a Acer Aspire 5051AWXMi With a built in Invilink 802.11b/g WLAN.

I'm dual booting with Ubuntu and Vista. I currently not sure of the chipset, although this is a snippet of lspci

I'm suspecting that to be the the chipset of the wireless. No matter what i do, i can't get it working.

Any help is appreciated.

If more information is need let me know.

this was the first thing on google and i assume it's what your looking for.

For Atheros chipset you need Madwifi drivers. In different versions of Ubuntu the drivers are :

• installed already
• compiled available in Ubuntu repository ( apt-get )
• to download and compile from madwifi web pages

Check commands ifconfig , iwconfig , wlanconfig when successfully installed the card responds as ath0.

If Madwifi solution doesn't work try ndiswrapper.

http://madwifi.org

Hold on, I took a ton of notes when I set up wireless on Debian just in case I ever had to do it again, I'll look them up for you.

Alright, read this:

markuphttp://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo

and this:

markuphttp://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/Distro/Ubuntu

What it might not tell you is that you need to edit your /etc/network/interfaces file to look something like this:

lloh@Lucy:/etc/network$ more interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

#Wireless Override ;D [This is what you need to add.]
auto ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid [Your network essid goes here]
wireless-key    [Your WEP key goes here, if appliable]