I have a toshiba laptop with an ATI Radeon 1200 internal wireless card. When I am in the office, I hook directly to my ethernet cable working on my website, www.mrhirsh.com

In any event, I like to work at home a lot but there prefer to use wireless to get to www.mrhirsh.com, which I can do when I boot up in Windows Vista (which I do not like), but when I am in Ubuntu 8.04, it seems that several of my ports (some of the USB, the CD/DVD sometimes,and the wireless card) don't "show up" in Linux.

So I am forced to get to www.mrhirsh.com either by being tied down with an ethernet cable or being tied down with Vista. Not sure which is worse.

If there are any thoughts, please let me know. I can't be the only one who has this issue.

Thanks,

P.S. you can respond here or leave me a note on www.mrhirsh.com

Thanks.