cheap ubuntu laptop with wireless that works right "out of the box".

[Derek Broughton]

Default User wrote:

> I just purchased a Toshiba Satellite laptop, model A205-S5804, from a
> local big box store.  Price $449 USD (which is why I bought it).  Here
> are the specs:
> 
> http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/rdet.jsp?seg=HHO&poid=403617
> 
> Unfortunately, the wireless doesn't seem to work under ubuntu right out
> of the box, and maybe not at all. See:

There's _no_ way to know from that spec whether the wireless can work. 
Calling it "RealTek" doesn't tell you anything about what you need to know. 
That said, for $449, buy yourself a USB or PCMCIA card that _will_ work
with Ubuntu.  I paid $18 for the one I put on my wife's laptop after the
Intel wireless died (and Dell refused to honour my warranty!)
-- 
derek