It's not as if I can be actually helpful, you've given people nothing to go on other than it didn't work for me. But seeing as literally everyone's experiences that it works out of the box on any piece of Hardware they've ever touched the only thing that can tell me is that something is horrendously broken with your Linux installation. What could that be? I have no way to know, but it's obvious that something is not even remotely how it should be the only advice I could give is to completely reinstall your Linux from scratch. Which is the same advice I would give to a Windows user facing a similar problem of something that should just work right out of the box and does for literally everybody except them