Yesterday, I bought an Aspire 1. Like the size and weight, no Vista in sight, and the price was right ($250).

Problem is, I can't get the WiFi to respond. I'm currently sitting about two feet from my access point. When I boot the computer or repair the connection, it sees that there are connections out there. But when I go to the list, or refresh it, it telling me it isn't finding a think.

Now I know that last is bogus- roommate's machine can see half a dozen access points in range, and it is a 4-5 year old Dell. So what the heck?

Chipset is the Atheros AR5007EG, the OS is XP and I spent half of last night updating it. I don't see any third party wifi management software.

I know there are a couple of us who have Apires- anyone seen this?