If your acer laptop uses the latest Atheros AR5007EG wireless chip you might want to follow this tutorial. it got my laptop working.
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/atheros-5007e ... l#more-394
Madwifi and Atheros
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Re: Madwifi and Atheros
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Re: Madwifi and Atheros
Yes you have to remove ath_pci from the blacklist if have previously tried to use ndiswrapper to install a windows driver because this isn't a windows driver , i'ts a true native LINUX driver in a very new MadWiFi driver package. Glad it has worked for you.