Showing posts with label Aspire One 753. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aspire One 753. Show all posts

Friday, July 8, 2011

Fedora 15 on Acer Aspire One 753

My new Acer Aspire One 753 arrived. Somewhat to my surprise the performance of it with Windows 7 was not great, so I shrunk the volume, and installed Fedora 15. This went quite smoothly, except for the installer wanting/needing internet access. As the built-in WIFI device isn't supported by GPL drivers, I needed to plug in a cable to complete the install.

I then set about getting wifi to work as follows -

Black list acer_wmi
echo blacklist acer_wmi > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-acer.conf

Install broadcom driver
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
yum update
yum install kmod-wl

Fedora 15 is performing very well, and the new interface is nice.