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Acer Aspire One 722 Wireless Network Bug

seasoned_geek by seasoned_geek

After a few days of playing around with my new toy, I decided to install a bunch of software to make it my full time writing device. Of course the software installs required updates because this is a rolling distribution. After applying the updates, I could not boot unless I had a hard wired network connection. Some poking around on-line proved this was an Acer BIOS/Hardware problem. It also provided a solution.

 At power on, hit F2 to get into setup menu.

Go to the Boot menu option.

Change your boot device order to look like this:

  1.  Atheros Network
  2. USB FDD
  3. USB HDD
  4. USB CDROM
  5. ATAPI CDROM
  6. HDD

 Atheros must be first and your local hard drive last. This causes the linux systems to configure the network in such a way as the conflict between hardwired and wireless is removed. NEVER BOOT WITH A NETWORK CABLE PLUGGED IN as it will try to boot from the network.

 

 

Roland Hughes started his IT career in the early 1980s. He quickly became a consultant and president of Logikal Solutions, a software consulting firm specializing in OpenVMS application and C++/Qt touchscreen/embedded Linux development. Early in his career he became involved in what is now called cross platform development. Given the dearth of useful books on the subject he ventured into the world of professional author in 1995 writing the first of the "Zinc It!" book series for John Gordon Burke Publisher, Inc.

A decade later he released a massive (nearly 800 pages) tome "The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS Application Developer" which tried to encapsulate the essential skills gained over what was nearly a 20 year career at that point. From there "The Minimum You Need to Know" book series was born.

Three years later he wrote his first novel "Infinite Exposure" which got much notice from people involved in the banking and financial security worlds. Some of the attacks predicted in that book have since come to pass. While it was not originally intended to be a trilogy, it became the first book of "The Earth That Was" trilogy:
Infinite Exposure
Lesedi - The Greatest Lie Ever Told
John Smith - Last Known Survivor of the Microsoft Wars

When he is not consulting Roland Hughes posts about technology and sometimes politics on his blog. He also has regularly scheduled Sunday posts appearing on the Interesting Authors blog.