Well, Just to let everyone know, I have thrown in the towel on the atheros AR5007EG wireless mini pcie card for a variety of reasons.
1. I have tried about 9 variations of the Atheros drivers in Genmac unsupported mode. Either they don't work or exhibit the same problem of 30 sec connectivity.
2. I'm going to add Mac OSX on this device in the remaining 17gig freespace I have. In order to use MAC OSX on the Acer, The Atheros card needs to go bye-bye. It is replaced by a Dell 1390 mini pcie wireless card that is a Broadcom 4311 chipset with a pci id of [14E4:4318] happily supported by Genmac.

I got one on eBay this morning for $15 USD and included free shipping.
3. Acer does not make it friendly to replace the card, Fortunately I'm well versed in laptop repair and the
www.aspireoneuser.com site provides great instructions for doing this.
Melf, Check out this link,
http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=3193and the forums in general to see the # of complaints on all platforms concerning the Atheros card. It may really be an issue of Acer's BIOS more than the quality of the card...
It is supposed to get here in 3 days. I'll post the results.
If we had drivers for the USB touchscreen and USB Bluetooth, I'd order those right now and do the whole device in one shot.
I am researching the CPU ram as there are stories it can be upgraded to 2gig.
There is also a guy in Mexico that has a mod to turn the Aspire one into a full tablet PC. The finished product looked so good, Acer needs to be thinking about it!