Logical thought is a wonderful thing and when it is applied to a problem at hand.

I managed to get everything I wanted to work in Edubuntu except the wireless adapter, I tried installing drivers and manually entering the network and all sorts of other things and all to no avail.... Then it struck me as hard as a runaway semi being driven by the Incredible Hulk, it must be a regional issue.

In Japan you can use channels 1-14, in Europe you can use channels 1-13 but in the good old U.S of A you can only use channels 1-11 and since my wireless router is set up for use on channel 13, Edubuntu (which is probbably geared a towards U.S. market) simply did not see it, I changed it to channel 10 and it picked the network out of the air in no time.

Real player was a little trickyer to install, but after reading this page all became clear.

Samba is still a bit of an issue, but I plan to solve it by setting up an FTP server instead.