wireless device driver

What version of Ubuntu are you running? Also you may want to install the network manager.

sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome

and then reboot your computer, you should get a new network manager icon up near the clock.

Let us know how it goes

Best Regards,

Williamts99

Will this help me install my Linksys USB54G wireless adapter? And what files do I need. (.inf, .sys, .bin ???) I already tried ndiswrapper-1.8 No success.

Thanks,

cliff01

cliff01,
Would you please consider opening your own support request as it gets very confusing having more then one problem per support request. You can easily follow the link below and start your own personal support request.
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addticket

Best Regards,

Williamts99

i had similar problems with my belkin usb wireless i was able to connect at one point to a wireless network but i forget how and when i rebooted it all went to hell on roller skates and i am unable to reproduce my results

I have the same computer, following this next steps I could make it work. In my case my wireless card is a Atheros AR242X

IF you don't know which is your:

lspci

--First we unable support for Atheros 802.11 Wireless LAN System>Adminitration>Hardware Drivers

--Second install linux-backports-modules

  sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-intrepid-generic

when you get done with the installation reboot the computer then we go to System>Administration> Hardware Driver and see if our new driver is working also our wireless car should be looking for networks on range by now.

in my case everytime I reboot linux I have to Deactivate my new driver and then activate it again and it starts working.

Note: we can check if our module ath5k has been load using "lsmod" command if we see that "ath_pci" is mounted we should unmount it using "sudo rmmod ath_pci"
we also have to stop it from mounting every time we reboot the system.

echo "blacklist ath_pci" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.

original steps are in http://gespadas.com/blog/2008/11/05/wifi-atheros-en-ubuntu-810/