"I fancy myself a Linux expert. I was a Unix system administrator before Linux existed, and these days, I run Linux on four servers and four desktops in my home office.
"But, even so, there are things that I haven't been able to do. The one that bugs me the most is my inability to get Wi-Fi networking working on my Centrino-enabled Toshiba laptop. I know my way around hardware. I know my way around networking. I know my way around Linux. And, despite all that, I can't get a perfectly ordinary Wi-Fi chipset to work with Linux..."