I bought a Mecer M815P netbook (new Atom chip) and struggled at first to get the wireless to work.
Howto guide:
Download the Realtek RTL8192SE driver: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36688638/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1211.2009.tar.gz
Extract the driver
Open terminal
[**]Change to root...