This seems to satisfy a lot of Ubuntu users:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php...light=acer+5002


**Thanks to Mathiasdm for the heads up on this one!
Barney

Thanks for the guide, but it didnt work for me . tried it with both the linux driver and the windows driver, no dice. back to playing around with ndiswrapper i go.

Thank you for this guide. ...I finally have wireless working on my laptop. You don't even know how happy I am to be back on linux.