New Laptop and 802.11

[John McGregor]

Frank wrote:
> The bad news is that installing Kubuntu 7.04 doesn't find the built-in
> wifi and will require some fiddling on my part. So my love of Kubuntu
> has dropped a touch.
The Aspire 5100 series uses an Atheros chipset, so you will have to
apt-get the madwifi package to get it to work.

If you prefer KDE to Gnome, I've found that MEPIS (which uses the Ubuntu
repositories) integrates KDE far better than Kubuntu does. FWIW, I have
an Aspire 5003.

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