Hi Harry Most hardware manufacturers are outside Australia. It will be difficult to dialog with them. However, the Australian Ubuntu community could ask Canonical to take some action in this direction. On the other hand, Local Internet providers will be easier to deal with, but you need to have a enterprise supporting Ubuntu in order to backup their decisions. Is there a Canonical center in Australia? It could provide commercial support for the providers... Cheers Hugo <div class="gmail_quote">On 29 March 2010 00:47, <a href="mailto:harry@ipunix.com">harry@ipunix.com</a> <<a href="mailto:harry@ipunix.com">harry@ipunix.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi Ubuntu Users, The communication between Dave Hall and Chris Taylor made me react to an important Linux O/S Laptop/Notebook issue. The laptop/notebook market is growing at an extraordinary rate; to convert those potential users to a Linux O/S will need all of us to lobby the after market hardware manufacturers and internet service providers to pay attention in giving support. Most Desktops running a Linux O/S connect direct to the internet via a straight forward to configure Broadband Cable or ADSL Modem. With other devices such as webcams, printers, digital cameras and USB drives it's very much the same. However multifunction printers can still be a problem. Currently one item most important to the laptop/notebook user is the use of a Next "G" wireless broadband modem. Telstra, Virgin and all other providers that I know off give no support for Linux at all. There is support for wireless broadband modems in some of the implementations of Linux such as Ubuntu, however to get a device to actually work is a hit and miss exercise.<div class="im"> I would like to know on any of you that have experience in getting a Next "G" wireless broadband modem to work on Ubuntu. </div> Regards,<div class="im"> Harry Degenaar, M: 0401231068 E: <a href="mailto:harry@ipunix.com" target="_blank">harry@ipunix.com</a> </div> -- ubuntu-au mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au</a> </blockquote></div>