[Hybr!d]

So today I thought I'd try ubuntu, yet I can't seem to find any linux drivers for my laptop, it's fairly current, 6 months old.

Normally I'd tell others if they are not on the manufacturers website you are stuffed but thought I'd ask anyway.

[computeruler]

what do you need drivers for?

[Hybr!d]

Inbuilt wireless mostly.

[computeruler]

when i ran linux i ran pclinuxos and to set up wireless for that i remember having to go to the control panel type thing and there was something to set up wireless and you inserted your windows drivers and you needed to find a certain one on there and once you found that you have your wireless set up but thats a complete different distro theres also something called nds wrapper

[Carbon]

Ubuntu has serious problems with wireless adapters.

The only real way to get this working is to follow a very complex series of steps (requiring internet access!) with ndiswrapper and extracting the original Windows drivers.

You see a lot of whining by power-users about how Ubuntu would trash Windows if people would only download it but when pieces of basic hardware don't work out of the box there's a problem.

[Cew27]

sorry, but ubuntu does not have a serious problem with wireless drivers, manufacturers have a serious problem with wireless drivers. ubuntu does a damn fine job of supporting as many wireless chipsets that i can (thousands i might add) and for those that aren't supported ndiswrapper does a good job getting them on the go

[Carbon]

That may be so but if you rely on a CLI to get things working there's no real reason to support it out of the box anyway. Power users are going to do whatever they can to get their hardware working because they know how to use the terminal. Anyone else is just going to give up.

[Cew27]

ndiswrapper doesn't rely on a cli, a powerful shell is a godsend in any os. the point of linux is to avoid bloat ware, gui for every single task is a prime example of bloat. if you understood most of the commands you would realise that almost all of them can be done with gui but its faster with command line