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[Pelládi Gábor <pelladigabor@xxxxxxxxx>]

Giacomo, I suppose your eee pc doesn't contain an Atheros wifi card,
like mine. It can contain an other wifi card. You can verify that with
the "lspci" command. If that doesn't give you something named Atheros,
you don't have an Atheros card. My eee contains a RaLink card, which
needs the rt2860sta driver. That driver is not included in Ubuntu yet,
even in backports, but it is included in Ubuntu-eee. See
https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/210725 for more info on the RaLink
driver.

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Atheros wireless (AR5007) not working on various laptops, including the ASUS Eee PC
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/182489
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Status in MadWifi - Atheros Drivers: Won't Fix
Status in “linux-backports-modules-2.6.24” source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
Status in “linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24” source package in Ubuntu: In Progress
Status in linux-backports-modules-2.6.24 in Ubuntu Hardy: Fix Released
Status in linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 in Ubuntu Hardy: Confirmed
Status in linux-backports-modules-2.6.24 in Ubuntu Intrepid: Invalid
Status in linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 in Ubuntu Intrepid: Won't Fix
Status in “linux-backports-modules-2.6.24” source package in Baltix: New

Bug description:
Binary package hint: linux-restricted-modules

The Eee PC has non-working wireless out of the box. A patch is available from the madwifi website:

http://madwifi.org/ticket/1679

I'd like to have working wireless in hardy, without having to patch/compile manually :)