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How to activate wifi Acer Aspire 4520 AMD Turion64 X2 atheros wireless on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

Very easy, i managed to done it finally, after googling for various sources:

  1. First open terminal, ALT + F2 and execute “xterm” or “gnome-terminal”.
  2. Download ndsiwrapper and execute:
    sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-common
    sudo apt-get install ndisgtk
    sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils-1.9
  3. Setup the Windows Wireless Driver Application
    You may install it from Add/Remove Programs and then choose System Tools > Windows Wireless Driver Application
  4. Download the wireless driver net5211.inf, just search using (antheros xp filetype:inf) .
  5. Install that driver file using Windows Wireless driver.
  6. To see whether the driver already installed, just click $ ndiswrapper -l

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