My Laptop

[Herbert Taylor <mgt2628hmt bellsouth net>]

I wanted to see if I could get some advise on what to do concerning 
wireless on my laptop.  I have a Dell Inspiron B130 with a Dell wireless 
card, 1370 WLAN, mini-PC card.  It works fine on windows as does a 
Linksys WUSB54G.

I have Ubuntu loaded right now in a dual boot, that one of my geek 
friends worked on and am not sure if it will ever work right again.  I 
have been unable to get get any drivers that will load or work with 
Ubuntu and network manager at all.  I was using Fedora 6, but had 
problems with that.  I am fairly new to Linux as you can guess.

Daniel Fetchinson (I believe) wrote that he installed Fedora 8 and 
network manager was working just fine and he connected to his wireless 
network.  I was thinking seriously of going back to Fedora but unable to 
find a way to get a copy were we are staying for the winter in Florida.

Not sure if my Dell (Broadcom card I believe) will work the same way 
with Fedora 8. Wish I knew more about this stuff.  Linux out performs 
Windows in all ways, but right now I am stuck using windows while I am 
down down here for 5 months. Any suggestions on what I might be able to 
do would be greatly appreciated. If I could get this thing to work I 
could drop windows completely.

Thanks so much

Herb Taylor