Laptop wireless network drivers

Hello, I am thinking about switching my laptop from XP(sp3) to Ubuntu Desktop. However I have heard and noticed that there is a huge lack of supporting drives for my onboard wireless network.

Is there a way to overcome this without having to get a different wireless network card?


Thanks, Carl


P.S. My laptop is a Gateway MX6453 and the hardware in question is:
Gemtek 802.11b/g Wireless Networking 4311E

I would be willing to buy a new network card if It could replace my existing one internally.

it's easier if you can find what is the chip installed at that gemtek card. usually is a broadcom chip, and if so, try to find broadcom chips for that particular chip model at ubuntu repositories or the official site.

hmmm just try

lscpi

in your consol and find wireless in the output ;)

then copy paste the line to google... at the end of that line add: driver ;)

try to find broadcom chips for that particular chip model at ubuntu repositories or the official site

Try the LiveCD. No muss no fuss. In fact try a few distros LiveCDs.