I thought was going to be a walk in the park. I installed Ubuntu on this laptop and figured that I would use my LinkSys 802.11g wireless PC card to connect to my local area network.
Well after getting the OS installed, I inserted my wireless card and could not connect to it from the OS. After searching around on Google, I found several tips on how to get it connect but after trying all of the tips that I could find and having none of them work, I went out and bought a new D-Link 802.11g PC card.
Once I installed this card I could get the OS to see the card bit it could not connect to my network. My network uses WPA security for the wireless portion. I had to download a utility called wpa_supplicant and get it configured properly before connecting.
I am happy to say that after about 16 hours of troubleshooting with both cards that I no have wireless access to my network!