It's just too bad that so many netbooks come with poorly supported wireless options that one has to resort to using ndiswrapper (which doesn't always work either!).
The other day I bought an Asus Eee PC 1001P only to find that Ubuntu's netbook edition doesn't work out of the box -- I had to do a bunch of google searches, then compile my own wireless driver to make it work. It sucks that Linux still struggles on the basic stuff like driver support, but excels everywhere else. Ndiswrapper only worked half the time on the eeepc, but I managed to find an alpha version of a native atheros driver that made it work much better.
The other day I bought an Asus Eee PC 1001P only to find that Ubuntu's netbook edition doesn't work out of the box -- I had to do a bunch of google searches, then compile my own wireless driver to make it work. It sucks that Linux still struggles on the basic stuff like driver support, but excels everywhere else. Ndiswrapper only worked half the time on the eeepc, but I managed to find an alpha version of a native atheros driver that made it work much better.