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Hello,
I have a Gateway laptop 7322. Currently I have Win XP on it. I want linux on it. Last time I attempted this I had a very hard time getting the LAN, WLAN, and the sound to work. I had installed a version of Ubuntu with ndiswrapper to try my WLAN driver but I could never get it so I gave up and reinstalled Windows which worked just fine. Is there any certain distro I should be focusing on? Really all I care about is getting wireless internet on it. Sound would be nice as well.
When was it that you tried to install linux last time. Driver support has gotten much better recently. I installed Ubuntu 7.10 on my laptop which has a wireless AGN card and had no problems at all. I highly recommend trying Ubuntu again. Play around in the LiveCD.
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Ubuntu is a great distro to start with. I'd suggest posting a question in the wireless networking forum, giving the specs of your card.
