How I fixed WiFi on my Acer Aspire One

Maybe I'm one of the last users of this old machine. And I've had my share of the disconnected WiFi problem. But I started to notice that the disconnect always happend when I moved the netbook around, lifted it or something. And after som more systematic testing I found that WiFi always died when I lifted the netbook in the right corner. And guess, thats where the Atheros mini-PCIe card sits. Every time I touch the machine the card moves in the PCIe contact! So this is my solution:

Open the machine. Remove the WiFi-card, it is fastened with a screw on a plastic support pin, the other end sits in a contact on the mother board. Cut the support pin with a knife. Hotglue the cable att the bottom so it doesn't touch the WiFi card. Insert the WiFi card and hotglue it to the mother board on both sides of the PCIe contact. But be careful, hotglue may be slightly conductive, so in the wrong place it may disturb the computer! And put the whole thing together again.

After this little surgery the Atheros card has worked perfectly, not one disconnect! I'm just supriced I've not seen my solution anywhere on the Internet, this netbook is very now and lot's of people had WiFi problems with it. I know many has replaced it with an Intel card. And maybe the Intel card sits tighter in the PCIe slot and therefore works better? I don't know. Anyway my Acer works very well now, running openSUSE.