Your lucky i bought 3 for msn
took them back but got to go back mon when acer are open if no joy i will try to get money back
happy chrismas

You should not have a problem with connecting to MSN. All you need to do is download a generic messenger (the ones that let you connect to different networks at the same time). I personallly recoment Pidgin ( http://www.pidgin.im/ ) because you can connect to plenty of networks, I´m sure it's all you need.

Don't listen when someone tells you to open a new account (e.g. yahoo) Pidgin or some other program like it will let you connect to multiple instant messaging networks, like the following:

AIM,Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, Groupwise, ICQ, IRC, MSN, MySpace IM, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE, Sametime, XMPP, Yahoo!, Zephyr and I'm sure soon the will even let you connect to facebook!! and many other social networks.

OH, BY THE WAY, Most Linux versions have Pidgin or something similar already installed in the system, you should check that first, so you don´t have to go through the hassle of installing something you already have.

I know because I use Ubuntu Linux and Pidgin is already there. You're welcome.

When you're on your linux,

Open google up and type into it; amsn

It personally hasn't worked for me but I assume i've done something wrong ;D

There are instructions there though, so good luck. [:

The Mac address of the AA1 is at the ath0 not eth0 as normal linux os should be.

activate the ez terminal and type ifconfig and you should get this line

[user@localhost home]$ ifconfig
ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:xx:xx:xx:YY

and the number is your address

(you can see it with connection manager also)

You have to update your computer until you get acer communication suite from the updates.

here are he steps to what you do:

1) you have to click on preferences/ settings on your acer desktop.
2) you then click on updates and let your acer update ( roughly for 1hour)
3) after your update is complete your messenger on your laptop should be working if not you have to update again then it would 100% work.