[CoLoCo] 802.11 Woes and Nvidia Nightmares

[Michael "TheZorch" Haney]

I have my latest report on my efforts to get the AMD64 version of Ubuntu 
working on my laptop.  According to Hardware Drivers the drivers for my 
wireless card are installed and "In Use", however there is no 
configuration option for a Wi-Fi connection under Network.  I had to 
connect via Ethernet to make sure Ubuntu was downloading up to date 
drivers it.  Hardware Drivers says the drivers are Enabled and In Use.  
My wireless adapter is an Athena AR5007EG.  The laptop also has a 
Gigabit Ethernet adapter from Nvidia, but having to be tethered all the 
time defeats the purpose of a laptop.

I'm also still having an Nvidia graphics problem on both my laptop and 
desktop.  I can get the drivers to download but I am unable to use 
Desktop Effects.  Hardware Drivers says the drivers are Enabled but Not 
In Use.  My desktop uses a 8x AGP Nvidia Geforce FX 5600 card w/256MB 
DDR RAM.  My laptop uses an Nvidia Geforce 7000M/nForce 610N chipset 
which has 256MB of Turbocache (a fancy way of saying the BIOS allocates 
256MB of system RAM for video memory).  Yeah, its a cheap Acer laptop, 
you get what you  pay for, and this one was given to me as a gift.

If I need to use legacy Nvidia drivers how would I go about installing 
them?  Are they in the repos?  I've done everything that know to do, 
please help me out.

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