Originally Posted by
ahallflyertalk
As you probably know, whether Wireless works in Ubuntu (or in Linux in general) depends greatly on the type of wireless card you have. Mine is made by Intel and has excellent Linux support, so my wireless card worked almost out of the box even back in Ubuntu 6.10. If the maker of your wireless card's chipset has good Linux support (or at least made enough info available to let people make it work), you should be in luck, otherwise it will probably never work well without jumping through hoops. Would help to figure out the chipset maker of your wireless card and google for Ubuntu tricks. There may be a recipe that will make your card work with NDiswrapper or something, without too much trouble.
I tried it multiple times with NDiswrapper and other solutions and it would never work with Edgy or Feisty. However, last night it worked! Everything finally works for me. Stayed up until 3 am playing with it. Now, I finally found a distro that works! (7.10).
Add: the wireless was an internal Intel card, however, I could not get a Linksys PC card to work either on my old laptop.