I have a DELL STUDIO 1555 late model laptop. I have used the windows installer for Ubuntu to install Ubuntu as a second OS beside Windows 7 on this machine. Ubuntu comes up fine, but it will not autodetect the existing wireless internet connection coming from my NETGEAR router. Opening a TERMINAL instance in Ubuntu and issuing the command “sudo lshw -c network” reveals that, under Ubuntu, the wireless network is disabled. Searching Ubuntu help offers only a possible hint to the problem: if a ethernet wired connection is available, it will be used by default. My question is: how can I get wireless up and running under Ubuntu 10 in the configuration on this machine? (Under this configuration, I have been starting the laptop and choosing Ubuntu as the OS to start rather than WIN7– I have not tried to run Ubuntu in its own WIN 7 window after WIN 7 loads. I have assumed that it’s not supposed to work like that).
