By “very few wireless networks wok in linux”, it probably means t…
By “very few wireless networks wok in linux”, it probably means that there is one popular wifi card that doesn’t work quite as easily as most others.
When I started Ubuntu for the first time after installing it on this computer, it immediately popped up a box for me to enter my network password… Most of the time, it should be like this, but sometimes you have to go into ‘Hardware Drivers’ (in System->Administration) and check the enable box.
At the extreme difficulty end (which I only had to attempt once a few years ago), you may have to follow a tutorial and copy a few lines into your terminal to get ndiswrapper working…