Finally got Ubuntu 7.10 working on my laptop(Dell Inspiron E1505).
Got my wireless working using this tutorial: Click Click

Once i was connected to the internet i was asked if i wanted to install Restricted for my ATI card –

ATI binary X.Org driver

I also got hold of GLUT which was a headache heres the command:

sudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev

Here is a picture of my desktop