I think you may have bad memory. I had a similar problem where the disk check would fail every time on known good disks. I'm very interested to know if this one works so please post your progress. Could you post the output of lspci -vn with a live Linux disk? Thanks much! It's hard to tell from the drivers download area at acer what's actually in this unit because they group all the 6930 series drivers on one page, and then leave it to the user to figure out which one is correct. Kind of lame. But it looks like the 6930-6942 has an Atheros wireless, Atheros Lan, Realtek audio.....should work ok in OSX.


Good luck!

PS I don't think this one has Intel® GM45 Express