Acer Ferarri 3000 Wireless working!

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Hi All:

Emerged wireless tools,
Emerged ndiswrapper,
Downloaded the 802.11 drivers from Acer's website,
Copied over the bcmwl5a.ing and the *.sys file to my home,
and did this:
ndiswrapper ./ndis/bcmwl5a.inf
johnathlonlinux jserink # iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed
johnathlonlinux jserink # iwconfig wlan0 key restricted xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
johnathlonlinux jserink # iwconfig wlan0 essid JohnandGrace
johnathlonlinux jserink # iwconfig wlan0
Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 18 of Wireless Extension,
but has been compiled with version 17, therefore some driver features
may not be available...

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"JohnandGrace"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.432 GHz Access Point: 00:04:E2:E3:3E:AF
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:14 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption key:E942-AD81-7BC9-C36A-214B-459C-AF Security mode:restricted
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-71 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:2 Invalid misc:520 Missed beacon:0

johnathlonlinux jserink # ifconfig wlan0 up
johnathlonlinux jserink # dhcpcd wlan0
johnathlonlinux jserink # ping www.yahoo.com

And I'm away. Works like a charm, in fact using it to write this.
AP is am SMC wireless router.

Also emerged the wireless plugin for gkrellm, works great as well.

Cheers,
[/glep]John :D