Comment 8 for bug 324921

@Martin

I have not investigated the issue any deeper, but my WLAN card of my Aspire One netbook did not work with a vanilla Intrepid installation. (Don't have the card make/model handy right now, but I can look it up later if desired.) So I followed the instructions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne

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 Wireless module

      There has been some confusion as to which wireless driver provides the best performance and reliability. I have found the following:
          o madwifi from kernel (ath_pci) - does not attach to hardware.
          o ath5k from intrepid backports (ath5k) - connects to hardware, but experiences disconnects on medium to heavy wireless activity, and can not communicate with some AP's using WPA2 PSK.
          o madwifi-hal from http://snapshots.madwifi-project.org/ (ath_pci) - Everything works.

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The newest madwifi did indeed work for me.

@Stefan

I did not check the logs whether there was anything interesting. The first thing I noticed after upgrading was that ath_pci had be commented in /etc/modules. So I uncommented it again and rebooted. When WLAN still didn't work, I just recompiled and reinstalled. After that WLAN worked again. If this is important (or you are just interested to understand what is going on) and 14.30 is still available I could try to reproduce the issue and check the logs. I don't think gcc version has changed since I installed 14.30 and compiled madwifi the first time.