I'm thinking about buying a new netbook for my wife to use. Before I pull the trigger on a purchase, I thought I should wonder if a new machine will be TOO new. I.e., will the necessary wifi driver already be in the linux kernel or available and easy to patch in somehow. I'm hooked on TC and would like any new computer I buy to be able to run it from the beginning.
The netbook I'm considering is ASUS Eee PC 1001PX-EU27-WT. From what I could learn through some web browsing, Ubuntu 10.10 works out of the box on it. I wasn't quite sure, however, that the wifi would be natively supported by the kernel in TC 3.5. Some feedback suggested that it might be; other feedback was unclear. I believe the wifi modem uses the Azurewave NE785H/GE112H WLAN Driver.
Does anyone have any hints about what source I might check for more info?