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Ubuntu should have a wiki where you can get specific instructions for Ubuntu, but you must get online... LOL Honestly if you are not that familiar with the tech end of Linux you should check out Antix Linux. It is very simple to set up wireless with that distro. I do not know why any of the distros preload drivers because they never ever match, and you will have to remove them. I have only had one wireless card that worked out of the box with linux and it was very old hardware.
There is a reason for this confusion, MS contracts with suppliers of certain hardware and agrees to preload the correct drivers into OS. But part of that contract is to keep working drivers from competing OS. This is much of the problems with sites like netflix that are restrictive to instant play to only MS OS that require registration.
Most of my laptops are dual boot, only because for certain applications I have to have windows, BUT on a couple computers I am actually using windows 2000 because it is smaller, and FASTER(cause it is smaller). I do run into some of the same problems that Linux users do because 2000 is out of copyright and can be had for free, and just like Linux used on as many machines as you like. Smaller OS tend to run faster unless you have a huge amount of RAM, and can load all the OS into RAM. This is one reason that Antix Linux works so well is it's smaller size. If you can get Antix and try get it, you will be happy you did.
