Update on above: Reinstalled Xubuntu Intrepid on the emachine D620. With a wired connection I added the backports and after a reboot all I had to do was setup my wireless connection with the Network Manager. Speed is approximately the same as with the wired port.
dmesg identifies the chip as follows: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC: 0xe2, PHY: 0x70) As a side note, neither Mint nor Sidux could successfully configure the wireless NIC with ndiswrapper and the driver that came with the computer. (no wireless extensions after setup). -- Atheros wireless (AR5007) not working on various laptops, including the ASUS Eee PC https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/182489 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
