[homme]

I purged my dell laptop of xp and installed ubuntu over it. Love everything about it except the loss of wireless. It even gave me 9 extra gigs on my hard disk, 6 more than the advertised disk space!

If the linux community could step it up on the driver front for wireless cards it would be a beautiful thing.

[davidw]

The problem is often the manufacturers, not the people who write drivers:

http://www.linuxdriverproject.org/twiki/bin/view

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Linux_Graphics_Essay