I'm having a similar problem, this thread has at least helped make some forward progress.

I'm currently using the Acer Aspire One.

"/etc/init.d/NetworkManager start" has gotten the green globe...

This was exactly right. For all others who get an Acer Aspire One in the future:

To configure your wireless, do the following:

airmon-ng
Stop all athX devices, leaving only eth0 lo and wifi0....

Thanks for the idea. I went ahead and partitioned my thumbdrive to a persistent BT4 distro. Touchpad works, but still no lo or wifi.

iwconfig returns the following:
lo no wireless...

Hello everyone, this is my first post. If there are any issues with it, please let me know and I will learn and correct future posts accordingly.

I am currently attempting to run BT3 USB distro.
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