I have the new emachines D620 ($299 on sale last week at BestBuy).
Atheros wifi is as follows according to Gentoo - lspci:
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006EG 802.11 b/g
Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
Under Mint or Ubuntu it shows up in LSPCI as the AR242x
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
I have the new emachines D620 (very Linux compatible!) with:
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg
Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
Running Linux Mint (Elyssa 5-r1 fully updated w/Mint Update) I got the
wireless card running very well with ath5k by
