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What is it about wireless connectivity and Linux ?
I recently came back to Linux after about 18 months, last having given up because my requirement was simply to connect a computer wirelessly to my home network. Open Office, Gimp etc and other applications are fine, but my main need is to be able to connect to the Internet without running a cable upstairs.
I had previously been unsuccesssful using a couple of Ubuntu distributions, and gave up. However, this Christmas I bought distro 8.10, keeping fingers crossed that maybe now it's been cracked. No go! I couldn't download the ndiswrapper application (which may have done the trick - who knows?) because of course I wasn't connected to the internet. My dongle by the way is the Sweex USB LC100060 which works fine with Windows.
Anyway, to return to the point of my question - is there ANY combination of Linux Distro and USB dongle which is guaranteed to work out of the box? Looking at the scale of this thread, the answer would appear to be no. With wireless connection being such a crucial feature of home computing now, I really cannot understand why it still continues to give such hassle, when most of the other 'fiddly bits' in using Linux have been eradicated.
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