Comments on: Wireless Networking on EeePC 701 – Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid”

By: pytho25

pytho25 — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:02:50 +0000

is there a apt-get version for this. thank you

By: Lane

Lane — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:23:41 +0000

Every time I see something like this, I get tempted to try installing U on my 701. But I don't have an external CD drive and installing the XEPC upgrade to the standard Xandros with a USB flash took a bit of fiddling, and I don't want to mess things up. Also with XEPC I have a mod that switches the arrow keys to more sensible locations, and I wouldn't want to give that up.

By: Vince

Vince — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:42:21 +0000

THANKS FOR THE POST IT WORKED FINALLY!

By: Jeremy Vaught

Jeremy Vaught — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:15:51 +0000

Awesome!!! Worked like a charm on my eeepc 900 with Ubuntu 8.10. Thanks for the post!

By: smiler

smiler — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:23:47 +0000

how are you supposed to do this with no net connection….?!

By: anzan

anzan — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:01:55 +0000

Excellent. It worked beautifully. Thank you very much for this and all of the work you do with this site. (I’ve disabled AdBlock.)

By: Christer Edwards

Christer Edwards — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:41:26 +0000

@Serafeim – double-check your /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist file for:

blacklist ath_pci

modprobe -r ath_pci
modprobe ath5k

By: Serafeim

Serafeim — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:36:39 +0000

I have Fujitsu-Siemens AMILO pa2510. I tried your instructions and still the wireless doesn’t work. When i put the command:
sudo modprobe -i ath_pci
in a console it gives me back the following:
WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist line 46: ignoring bad line starting with ‘“blacklist’

What’s the matter? How can I get the wireless to work?

THX!!

By: Ben2K

Ben2K — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:20:08 +0000

I have the same problem since “upgrading” to 8.10 with a Fujitsu with the 2200BG networking, and can’t connect to a secured network, but I can to an open access point. Tried your instructions, but its still broken

By: Wes

Wes — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:27:46 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial but I’m still having problems. I’m using 8.10 UMPC on my EeePC 900HA. I’m having the same wireless problems you described. I can’t use the aptitude command. It says its not found. When I ran apt-get install aptitude it said I needed to be root. So I ran sudo apt-get install aptitude and it says “E: Malformed line 56 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse)
E: The list of sources could not be read.”
Not sure what I’m doing wrong or why everything I try to do in linux takes four hours.