01-26-2011
Considering corporations treat preinstalled linux like the throwaway OS they put on no-OS computers(just dump it on, who cares if it supports half the hardware) it's probably for the best it didn't come preinstalled.
I don't know of a list of all possible computers and their Ubuntu compatibilities, no. Laptop models change so fast it's ridiculous, you'd be adding and obsoleting several related models a month if you tried to keep one.
What you might do is pick a netbook you like, then google "ubuntu netbook brand model etc etc" and see if anyone else tried.
There's probably guaranteed to be issues since it's hard to get stock anything running on half the notebooks and netbooks they sell. For Windows they do the dirty work of shoehorning the weird hardware into working for you, everyone else is left to clean up their mess unaided.
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madwimax
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NAME
madwimax - driver for mobile WiMAX equipment based on Samsung CMC-730
SYNOPSIS
madwimax [OPTIONS]
DESCRIPTION
madwimax is an experimental reverse-engineered linux driver for mobile WiMAX (802.16e) devices based on Samsung CMC-730 chip. These devices
are currently supported:
o Samsung SWC-U200
o Samsung SWC-E100
o Samsung SWM-S10R (it is built in Samsung NC-10 netbook)
The driver is completely user-space. It requires libusb-1.0 and TUN/TAP driver to work.
OPTIONS
-d, --daemonize
Daemonize after startup.
--device=VID:PID
Specify the USB device by VID:PID combination.
-e FILE, --event-script=FILE
Specify path to the event script.
--exact-device=BUS/DEVICE
Specify the exact USB BUS/DEVICE (use with care!).
-f, --detach-dvd
Detach pseudo-DVD kernel driver on startup.
-h, --help
Display help.
-l FILE, --log-file=FILE
Write log to the specified FILE instead of the other methods.
-o, --diode-off
Turn off the diode (diode is turned on by default).
-q, --quiet
Switch off logging.
-V, --version
Print the program version number.
-v, --verbose
Increase the log level.
--ssid=SSID
Specify service set identifier, or SSID, which is a friendly name that identifies a particular 802.16e wireless network.
EXIT STATUS
0 Success
1 Failure (syntax or usage error; hardware error; underlying software error; unexpected error).
BUGS
See the madwimax issue tracker: <http://code.google.com/p/madwimax/issues/list>
AUTHOR
Written by Alexander Gordeev, <mailto:lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
RESOURCES
Main web site: <http://code.google.com/p/madwimax/>
COPYING
Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Alexander Gordeev. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
27 September 2009 madwimax(8)