Hi Sigurd,
well that bring some kind off hope definitely. Thanks for the kind words, I just want to make it work and really rely on guys like you, Ed and Mr Jinx here :-) . Acer one is such a "sweet" machine, it works so fast and smoth in eCs compared to winXP. The last problem is in fact the atheros card - and it is frustrating. The touchpad coming up in a locked manner is no big thing. Shouldn't it be possible to write som script that switches the pad on at start up?