Fajar Priyanto wrote: > In current days of distro like Ubuntu, Opensuse, and Mandriva, being > "suitable" is not enough anymore (I think). Try install Centos on a > notebook, and we will see that the wifi is not recognized. Sure as > sysadmin we can do ndiswrapper, etc. But what will "ordinary" / > first-timer say? I don't know if this says anything, but as a linux user/admin for more than a decade now, I still couldn't figure out how to get wifi working in Ubuntu without that little network UI applet in gnome. And yes I did try on several occasions, found some reference documentation online, but none of it seemed to work. (GNOME is not my desktop of choice so I wanted to figure this out, I ended up just firing up a local VNC so I could login to gnome from my desktop(afterstep) to control wifi when I needed it). And that's with the OS fully detecting and supporting the underlying hardware, and with a user who has absolutely no fear of the command line. I'm sure I would of figured it out eventually it just wasn't *that* important since I had a workaround. nate