Comment 116 for bug 352228

rats, hehe

2) Toshiba Satellite A505-S6965 that we are dealing with in this bug report. It is working better than the 3945 chipset, but is still broken even though there is a fix.
3) I have 4 Aspire Ones. The first three use broadcom b43 drivers that read these netbooks wrong even with Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10 and Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04. This is one of the most popular netbooks around, yet they won't even boot without doing a lot of rooting around to fix it (ok with me, but most people who are newbies wouldn't be able to do it). Here is a forum on where I helped get a guy going with this (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1477490). The newer Aspire One has an atheros chipset. It DID work fine "out of the box."

So, here is my wireless track record over the last 2 years with Ubuntu.

1/6 laptops/netbooks working (really to be fair, 1/4 because 3 were the same).

That is terrible statistics for Ubuntu. I am a solid linux user and have been for 12 years (I started back in the days of Caldera). For the past few years, I'm 98% Linux only (when these Ipods break, I'll buy linux-capable units from now on and I'll be 100% except for homeschooling things that I can't get working with wine). I will do whatever it takes to get my boxes working with Ubuntu/Mint whenever possible, but I'm dedicated. Newbies won't be. They will just go back to Windows, which is sad.

Ubuntu needs to get wireless right. That should be a priority, esp with the netbook edition.

Narnie