[Discuss] My first laptop...bummer

[David Lee]

Good evenin' 

I just bought my first laptop. It's a Toshiba with an Atheros 5007(G?) wire less adapter. I bought it 'cause the Atheros website said it was a big fan of Linux etc, etc.
Well. Long story short..no wireless networking. First I had Vista off. Installed 7 or 8 distros but nothing "just worked". I've never had any problems with my 3 desktops and networking (wired).
I put on Ubuntu, the sound works, I've got proper screen resolution and other than no wireless, I could like it. I put Vista back on and dual boot with Ubuntu, switching to Vista for mobility.
I tried to use ndiswrapper, but the .inf files are stuff like oem.17 and the like. My limited knowledge leaves something to be desired.
This laptop has a card slot , so I wondered if I bought an inexpensive wireless card from Futureshop (Christmas gift cards), that I might have better luck getting my wireless network going. I did buy a D-link wireless router that seem to work fine.

The whole idea of a laptop was so I could have my own Linux machine. My wife gets real annoyed when I accidently format her Windows partitions. :)

David