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Moley, as usual (always?) I completely agree with you. It seems odd to me as well that they would use a version of Linux that is tedious to configure for wireless connection, and this must be a fundamental use of such a netbook.
As many readers here know, I have tested quite a few different Linux distributions over the past 6 months or so, and I have to say that I found openSuSE to be one of the more tedious to install, configure and use - so much so that I don't even keep it in an alternate partition on any of my systems right now. Of course, things might be somewhat better with the "real" SuSE distribution, but it doesn't sound like it at least in this area.
Ubuntu and Mandriva have both had wireless networking down cold for some time now, such that is not much different from setting up wireless on Windows, and certainly not any more difficult.
jw 10/10/2008
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