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No wireless or Ethernet functionallity on Acer AO533-23227

Asked by Joe LeClaire

Recently purchased an Acer Aspire One AO5333-23227. Was able to register computer using home wireless network using Windows 7 Starter that came with netbook.

Installed Ubuntu Desktop 10.04 LTS.

OS did not find wireless or Ethernet. Check marks in Manager show wireless is selected.

My MacBook runs with both wireless and Ethernet, so network/modem is not the problem.

Suspect missing driver for wireless/Ethernet adapter for new netbook.

Can anyone suggest a solution?

Thanks, Joe.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C network

Thanks

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Joe LeClaire (jhleclaire) said : 		#2

Here is the output of "sudo lshw -C network":

  *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Ethernet controller
       product: AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet
       vendor: Atheros Communications
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: c1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vpd bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:57000000-5703ffff ioport:5000(size=128)
  *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Network controller
       product: Broadcom Corporation
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       version: 01
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:56000000-56003fff

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Is there any difference if you attatch an eternet cable to the system, wait 10 seconds then run the same command?

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Joe LeClaire (jhleclaire) said : 		#4

There were no differences. I plugged in the Ethernet cable, waited a minute. Then I created a new log file from that command with the Ethernet cable plugged in, and did a diff on the two log files. There was no difference.

By the way, I have Ubuntu 10.04 LTS running under Parallels on my MacBook. So I could get packages (perhaps using apt-get), copy them to a USB thumb drive and move them to my new netbook.

Thanks, Joe.

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Joe LeClaire (jhleclaire) said : 		#5

Loaded Netbook 10.10 and all my problems went away.