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Requirement:

Before You start, you need fooling thing:

• Acer Aspire One
• a CD with Xubuntu 8.04.1
• a USB memory key (1Gb) with a copy of the liveUSB DEB from http://klik.atekon.de/liveusb
• a wired network connection with internet connection
• another computer, with internet  access.

Prepairing

• Boot other PC from a Xubuntu 8.04.1 CD
• Install liveUSB from deb in USB key
• Open console and run liveusb
• Make Xubuntu Live USB key (it’s easy)

Installing  Xubuntu

• Shut down your Aspire One and insert the memory live key;
• Power on Aspire, press F12 and choose the boot the USB HDD option;
• Install Xubuntu like normal, except for good performance, and to increase the life of the SSD use a non-journaled (EXT2) filesystem;
• You may get an error about setting up a mirror, but its non-fatal.

Configuring and tuning Xubuntu

Connect Aspire to network with Ethernet cable

Update your system (in terminal):
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Install console editor(in terminal):
sudo apt-get install gedit

Install wi-fi drivers:
mkdir source
cd source
wget http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz
tar xzvf madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)
cd madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3816-20080724 (This will change when new snapshots are made)
make
sudo make install
sudo -i
echo ath_pci >> /etc/modules
exit

You should now have working wireless. If you get a symbol mismatch when loading the driver, just reboot as that has corrected it everytime for me.

Everytime there is a kernel update you will need to perform the following steps to make the wireless work. Go to the source directory and run:

make clean
make
sudo make install

Wireles LED:

To get your awesome wireless led to blink for you based on traffic, for me, put these lines in /etc/rc.local

sysctl -w dev.wifi0.ledpin=3
sysctl -w dev.wifi0.softled=1

The led on the front will now do the association blink, as well as blink based on wireless traffic. Use ledpin=-3 for a solid light.

The wifi kill switch uses these keycodes:

/usr/bin/setkeycodes e055 159
/usr/bin/setkeycodes e056 158

Resolve USB mount problems
sudo gedit /etc/fstab

add a hash in front:

#/dev/sdb /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0

Reducing SSD wear:

sudo gedit /etc/fstab

tmpfs /var/log tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /var/log/apt tmpfs defaults 0 0

Vuala:)

P.S. Special thanks go out to all users from Aspireoneuser.com forum.