ACER ASPIRE 5250 WIRELESS DRIVER DRIVERS

The 6250 has a BIOS update, however it is one of those live updates that requires windows 7 to patch. Wireless is a little flaky as is the case with every linux distro out there.

ACER ASPIRE 5250 WIRELESS DRIVER DRIVERS

The usual gnome tweaks are required along with the vendor drivers for the video card to make this happen.

Wireless is a little flaky as is the case with every linux distro out there. The linux distros tested on the Acer Aspire 5250 were the 64bit versions of Ubuntu 10.x, Ubuntu 11.x and Linux Mint 11. This laptop will run World of Warcraft under Wine without any problems with full eye candy on. The ATI 6250 is a decent enough video card as well. I attempted to remove a Simm just to see what would happen and it became ugly fast. The C-50 takes a beating like a champ, not though to give it that beating, you'll need 4 Gigs of memory. Selecting a linux distro from the summer of 2011 is key because linux distribution makers tend to focus on the hardware set that is available at that time. Overall, skipping the newer distros will help the performance. Mint works well if you are a Windows user switching over to Linux. Least favorite was the Ubuntu 11.x, it attempted to resolve hardware and was constantly pecking around for вЂњsomethingвЂќ, although the Unity interface was VERY nice on the laptop. The least clunky version was Ubuntu 10.4 as in behavior was fluid and the eyecandy all worked flawlessly. The linux distros tested on the Acer Aspire 5250 were the 64bit versions of Ubuntu 10.x, Ubuntu 11.x and Linux Mint 11.

Acer aspire 5250 wireless driver