Wireless not working on an Acer Aspire 5040

[Beatnut]

I've installed Sabayon 3.4f on an Acer Aspire 5040.
When promting lspci i got the following text:

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krisbox kristian # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 10)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller (rev 80)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 82)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller (rev 80)
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SB450 HDA Audio (rev 01)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev 80)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev 80)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP]
06:05.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01)
06:06.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
06:07.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)


That means that my wirelesscard is an Atheros Communications, Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01).

My problem is that I cant find the card in the network manager. It doesent seem to be installed or activated.
Anyone who can help me with this issue please?

[dr_cerebro]

I have an Acer Aspire 5050, and had the same problem.
I kind of solved that problem, in part... My wireless card is detected, and sometimes I can go wireless. The most of the time, knetworkmanager just try to connect.

First, you have to install acer_acpi and then ndiswrapper with the windows driver suitable for your card:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=580672&page=2

Start just where it says:

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mkdir ~/download

do not follow the step of the script, because it does not work in Sabayon, continue after the script step until this step:

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sudo update-rc.d acer_acpi_wireless_enable start 39 S . start 34 0 6 .

Then, go to this thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=512828

Follow the steps described there, and then follow this wiki:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Acer_Aspire_5024#WiFi

just from the step where it says:

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# ndiswrapper -l


to the step where it says:

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# /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start

Hint: if you install acer_acpi above 0.7 (I recommend 0.8.2), then instead of:

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echo -n "enabled: 1"

replace with:

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echo 1

Then, hit the wireless kill switch in the front of the laptop (you won't see anything), restart and good luck !

I still don't know the correct step by step, I wish to know exactly which steps worked, and which steps don't, but I did that (in that order), and get it to work twice

If this is confusing I could write a step by step, just let me know.