wifi on acer aspire one 8.9" mini

Hello I am building a acer aspire laptop min with duel boot os windows xp on the hard drive and opensuse 11 on usb flash drive every thing went very well except the the wifi so I am trying to match the right wifi drivers the windows wifi driver is Atheros AR5007EG.please for any help or info

Bruce000 wrote:
> Hello I am building a acer aspire laptop min with duel boot os windows
> xp on the hard drive and opensuse 11 on usb flash drive every thing
> went very well except the the wifi so I am trying to match the right
> wifi drivers the windows wifi driver is Atheros AR5007EG.please for any
> help or info

Please go to the wireless forum and read the stickies (the first 3 postings).
From that information you will be able to help diagnose your problem. In
particular, check for missing firmware. If you get stuck, the stickies also tell
you how to report needed information.

On 2009-04-16, Bruce000 <Bruce000@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> Hello I am building a acer aspire laptop min with duel boot os windows
> xp on the hard drive and opensuse 11 on usb flash drive every thing
> went very well except the the wifi so I am trying to match the right
> wifi drivers the windows wifi driver is Atheros AR5007EG.please for any
> help or info

install 11.1 instead of 11 and it works out-of-the-box

http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_on_the_Aspire_One

Thank you very much for the info I have my opensuse on usb stick and the latest aspire netbook with 1 gig ddr2 its very fast as fast as any desk top so that is grate news I have opensue on dvd and a usb cd/dvd so I can run full install I will look for 11.1 .I am just getting my internet connection set up in the next week or so I wont have to use the free wifi hotspots only.I am looking forward to having both windows xp and opensues on my laptop mini.
Thank you very much for your help
Bruce