I just want to share step by step to activate wireless Acer Aspire 3684 on Ubuntu 8.04. If your wireless chipset is same, you could follow this how to. The chipset that used in here is Atheros AR5007 wireless network adapter and please follow this procedure to make it work in ubuntu 8.04 using the latest MadWiFi drivers. For 32-bit Users 1. First go to System–>Administration–>Hardware Drivers” and disable by un-ticking the following option: Atheros Hardware Access Layer (Hal) Reboot your system. 2. Preparing your system sudo apt-get install build-essential Then open the terminal from Applications–>Accessories–>Terminal and copy the following [...]