Hi there, Nowadays I'm playing around Ubuntu 10.10 because I had to do big works with command terminal which need for my 2nd semester subjects. I haven't installed Ubuntu to my laptop (Dell XPS M1210) before. But I knew I'll have to get it soon to my laptop. However I was in a doubt whether my laptop can bear two OS's because my HDD is too small comparatively to others. Whatever I decided to install Ubuntu 10.10 and no matter, it's running easily. But I saw that my wi-fi status indicator not coming to active status even I switched it into active mode. And I saw the network connections icon in top of the desktop is showing a red exclamation mark also. It's indicating "device is not ready (firmware missing)" under the wireless networks. Finally I found a solution for that after surfing some web sites. There are two solutions as I got it. If you can gain a Internet connection using other source like wired Ethernet, etc. It'll be a easy case for you.
Here's the correct place you must follow: http://wireless.kernel.org/