[plug] NIC driver for Easy Peasy 1.1

[Kev]

Hello all,

I recently bought the latest Acer Aspire One (model D250) for my wife.  
I bought the model with a 160g HDD and WinXP installed.  I have since 
resized the Win partition and now have it happily dual booting eXPee and 
Easy Peasy 1.1.

The problem:  The NIC in the AAO is reported (by eXPee) as being an 
"Atheros AR8132 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller" and Easy Peasy (1.0 and 
1.1) doesn't have a driver for this NIC.  I'm not technically adept 
enough to understand source code or to compile my own kernel, and I'm 
sure not adept enough to understand anything Google has thrown up at me 
so far.  I've lobbed queries into both the AAO forum and the Easy Peasy 
forum, but no response from either.  Is there some knowledgeable, yet 
kind soul out there who is able and willing to help with this please?  
The aim is to completely ween my wife off Windoze, but I'm not off to a 
good start.

The machine is and Acer Aspire One - model D250
The NIC is an Atheros AR8132 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller
The EasyPeasy 1.1 kernel is version 2.6.27-8-eeepc

Thanx in antici ............................................. pation,
Kev Downes

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