I bought my Toshiba L40-157 at Trony on the 8th of November, 2007. Windows Vista gave me a BlueScreen in less than 30 minutes.
I installed Ubuntu Gutsy.
RTL8187B
This is weird. The hardware seems very flaky. It's internal, but uses the USB bus. Even in Windows it doesn't work for me. It seems as if the device is constantly connecting and disconnecting itself. Most of the time lsusb cannot find it. But, sometimes it comes with stuff like Bus 002 Device 051: ID 0bda:8197 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Possible help:- http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/blog/2007/09/26/no-more-vista/
- http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-593594.html?sid=3c4fce2325587653563...
- http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/cant-get-wireless-t...
# ndiswrapper -i net8187b.inf installing net8187b ... couldn't find models section "Realtek" - installation may be incomplete root@guashiba:/root/VistaX86# ndiswrapper -l net8187b : invalid driver!And Google couldn't find "net8187b : invalid driver!" yet. But, if you use the driver for Windows XP, which you can download (add link) at realtek.com.tw it seems to be better! Even ndiswrapper doesn't like Vista! Could be useful: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3213248