Hi, been a while since I posted on these forums but I have always found them to be very helpful so here it goes. I recently installed Ubuntu Feisty on my girlfriends Dell Inspiron B130 and I cannot get the wireless internet working and im not sure how to go about doing so. Any useful comments/links would be very appreciated. I am a fairly competent linux user but I have never used linux and wireless so its a bit of a mystery to me. Thank you.

Update!!!
I used this link http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...20&mode=linear
to get it up and running but the connection is shotty and goes out any tips, Thanks.

well you can always try ndiswrapper
I've not tried it on Ubuntu but I know it works fine on OpenSuse 10.1

In looking around at some of the other Ubuntu-related sites, there are many comments about Feisty not being the best with wifi. Edgy seems to actually be better.

I run Kubuntu 6.06 (Dapper) LTS. I got my Broadcom 4318-based Buffalo wifi cardbus adaptor running well using the ndiswrapper from my Dapper CD and the Win2K driver from the CD that came with the card. It did take a fair amount of console work (i.e., blacklisting the kernel bcm43xx driver, copying the Win2K driver, a couple of ndiswrapper commands, rebooting). Then I used kwlan to set up WPA between the card and my router.

It's quite stable and just works. But please bear in mind that I don't run Feisty. Canonical committed to three years of support for Dapper, and I'm gonna take them at their word. Ubuntu is a good distro, with great community support, but I look at the releases after Dapper as R&D efforts - at least until the next LTS release. Still good stuff, but with the possibilities of problems.