Well, despite my previous post to the contrary, I have periodic issues with the Atheros networking drivers on my Aspire One. They worked most of the time under Vista. They work rarely under Windows 7. The wireless device either simply disappears or just won’t connect to anything. The Windows troubleshooting/repair functions do nothing to fix it. I have no idea what I need to do, except, I suspect I’ll need to wait for newer drivers. Atheros doesn’t seem to offer direct downloads for what I need, so this is a severe slam for the Aspire at this point!
By the way, many people ask where to get the downloads for the Aspire One at all. There are two places. A nice HTML-based downloads page, and an FTP site. I just haven’t had more time to track down this issue, but surely there is a better driver out there somewhere! If anyone finds it, feel free to let me know. :-)