connecting my laptop to the Internet

[MICHAEL WEAVER]

I have had a thought about getting my Internet connection tempoarily working 
in Ubuntu Edgy until I can get my desktop sorted out with Linux or buy a 
wireless Router for home use with my BT account and have both desktop and 
laptop machines networked.
Is there a way of connecting my laptop using my BT Voyager Broadband MODEM 
which someone at one of the Linux groups I attend did manage to get working 
on his laptop as he was able to access the web with it which I normally use 
for my desktop machine without affecting my connection settings for Voxbar 
which is where the group is held so I can switch between the two without 
affecting the settings for Voxbar and basically run my BT account until I 
can get Ubuntu on the Desktop so then I can do a bit more work with Linux 
and maybe in that way apt-get a copy of Speakup, Espeak, Speech-dispatcher 
etc and have a go at trying to get them installed and configured on the 
laptop?