I have Toshiba P205-S6327 and did not have some bigger problems. The wireless didn’t work out of the box but I handled it with the ndiswrapper. There is the issue with special keys that doesn’t work but I didn’t have time to find a solution for that. There is toshiba utils toolkit for these specificsettings but it seems that doesn’t work on 64bit architecture. In general it works way much better than with Vista.

Thanks for the link, but I’ve tried ndiswrapper already; I’ve tried everything but recompiling the kernel. Even ndiswrapper didn’t help, that one caused my whole system to crash. It’s the RTL8187 driver, for someone one solution works, for others, doesn’t. I’m in the smallest group: when nothing works :( I plan to get a laptop soon, so hopefully it’ll work with Ubuntu (or some other distro) like a charm :)

BTW, which laptop do you have? Any other problems with Linux?

I’ve installed Ubuntu on my laptop and had problems with wireless card, but there are ndiswrappers for installing devices from native Windows drivers. Just you have to see what is your wireless card, find its driver and install it with ndiswrapper. Can not remember exactly the procedure but it works perfect for me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NdisWrapper