So recently my roommate ordered an ASUS EEE PC, because he was impatient and did not receive shipping notification he went ahead and ordered another one from a different distributor. Soon after he realized that both would be arriving on the same day. I was on the fence about owning one, but I took this as a sign to go ahead and buy one. Finally, they both arrived and it was immediately apparent that a different OS needed to be installed. Ubuntu was the obvious choice, but as usual there were some driver problems, one of them being wireless.

To my surprise this EEE PC used the same wireless chip that my cheap Acer Aspire 5100 used. While browsing around my roommate came across a working Mad WiFi configuration. It's much easier to setup than my previous post, which is why I'm updating this information here.

ALL CONTENT BELOW IS FROM http://wiki.eeeuser.com/ubuntu#wireless_internet_using_native_madwifi_dr...

Atheros has been sporting enough to release a patch to the binary hal layer of the madwifi driver for the wireless card in the EEE. In short, this means to have a native working madwifi driver, all one has to do are some quick steps to compile new modules and install them. Note: If you have previously followed the steps below to use ndiswrapper, you will have to unblacklist the ath_pci module so that the kernel can use the new driver.

These are updated directions using the pre-patched tarball provided by madwifi in this madwifi ticket. This way the patching is already done for you.