I have a new laptop that came with Vista (HP Pavillion dv2210us), and no distro I tried supports my wireless internet with the exception of SimplyMEPIS. I've heard that SimplyMEPIS sets up ndiswrapper for you, but the point is it works. Why couldn't Ubuntu or any other distro do the same thing? The laptop uses broadcom, and it seems that quite a few other laptops use it as well. Wireless is becoming increasingly important as laptops gain more market share in computer sales, so why isn't anyone putting more time into that part of it. Of all the things that come on the installation disk for a Linux distro, wireless support should definately be there since the rest of the stuff can be downloaded after the install. I can't get on the interent to download wireless drivers if the wireless network is how I get my Internet access.
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Just reinstall Vista and send it back. If you're computer savvy enough to use Linux, I'm sure you can figure out how to put Vista back on it.
I have a new laptop that came with Vista (HP Pavillion dv2210us), and no distro I tried supports my wireless internet with the exception of SimplyMEPIS. I've heard that SimplyMEPIS sets up ndiswrapper for you, but the point is it works. Why couldn't Ubuntu or any other distro do the same thing? The laptop uses broadcom, and it seems that quite a few other laptops use it as well. Wireless is becoming increasingly important as laptops gain more market share in computer sales, so why isn't anyone putting more time into that part of it. Of all the things that come on the installation disk for a Linux distro, wireless support should definately be there since the rest of the stuff can be downloaded after the install. I can't get on the interent to download wireless drivers if the wireless network is how I get my Internet access.