Comment 137 for bug 182489

HI to all!
I had been working around this issue since October 2007, including several distributions and I still, I found the same "solutions".
I have an aspire 7520, and I spent a LOT of time trying with madwifi, ndiswrapper, acer_wmi, you name it, and after 6 months, I got my atheros AR 5007 working on hardy. (I followed all the procedures, installing ndiswrapper, blacklisting, installing acer_wmi, dmesg, ..etc). bad, very bad
When Ibex came, I tried it, and I had more problems (out of the box) than on hardy, but more important, that still, no wifi.
This time, ndiswrapper doesn't work, and I won''t try using also the acer_wmi stuff.
So, I will like to know the real status of this issue, at least what options do I have at the moment, if I try again the amd64 dist or the 32bit.
If madwifi will work on 64bits or keep trying on ndiswrapper.
This is so frustrating that I had been using Vista since October (Ibex release time).
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards!!!
Sebass