ubuntu wireless internet issues
 

ok well i have to say that im a newbie hahahahah and that i cant get my et to work... ive even tried manuel and put in the gateway, ip, ect... but still no worky... i have a hp and currently multi partitioning with vista.
i have a broadcom wireless card... do i have to install a driver?

thanks in advanced...

oo and out of the blue question.... does ubuntu work just about like linux???

Does Gnome Network Manager see the wireless connection?

If it does but the setup still won't work, try using wicd (http://wicd.sourceforge.net/) as the network manager instead. If it doesn't see the card, then maybe you'll have to.

it would help if you posted the type of wireless card you had

You're going to need either bcm43xx-fwcutter or ndiswrapper. I haven't tried it, but something like this howto might help:
HOWTO: Broadcom 43xx based wireless cards the EASY way.