my verizon wireless air card will not work

The CD you have is for Windows, Ubuntu is not Windows so it is of no use to you

Can you give the output of:

lsusb

Thanks

this is the command line output, is that what you were asking for?

Archive: /home/dee/Desktop/VZAccess_Manager.exe
[/home/dee/Desktop/VZAccess_Manager.exe]
  End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
  a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
  latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
  the last disk(s) of this archive.
zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /home/dee/Desktop/VZAccess_Manager.exe or
          /home/dee/Desktop/VZAccess_Manager.exe.zip, and cannot find /home/dee/Desktop/VZAccess_Manager.exe.ZIP, period.

no, read what I wrote. You have typed the same data so we are already aware of this.

i have no idea what the Isusb is or where i would find it

Ok then press CTRL+ALT+T
type the command (spoke would be: ell-ess-you-ess-bee)
press ENTER
copy the text and paste here as an output

Thanks

If you have used your wireless (usb?) device successfully in a Windows machine, via VZAccess_Manager.exe, it should have been "activated", and may be used under Ubuntu by using Network_Manager. The Network manager icon looks like a pie slice made up of arcs, and if you right click on it, select "edit connections". then Select the "Mobile Broadband" tab, and enter a few items like country, Verizon, etc. Network manager should dial and connect up. Next time, your verizon connection should appear in the list of connections to click on. when you left click on the network manager icon.
I'm not sure what the Windows activation does, maybe not much other than the phone number to dial (#777 I think).

true but if not it will need swithing so we need to find out what's what...