Comment 122 for bug 182489

I used the following method to get my eee pc wireless to work:
   Re: EeePC, wireless and Intrepid
  with intrepid it should work almost out of the box. You just:

  -install intrepid
  -then go to system->hardware drivers
  -disable the atheros driver in that list
  -reboot your computer

  and wireless should work on the eeepc.

One problem that had me stumped initially was that it did not detect channels 12 (2.467GHz) and 13 (2.472GHz).