Averatec with 7.04 install problem.

[Mike Adolf]

I finally convinced a friend to install linux on a laptop. Now I can't
get the network wireless to work. Things are kinda weird. Windows, on
the same laptop, gets a signal strength of 80%. In linux when I use
"Connect To Other Wireless" option, under top menu network icon, I
sometimes seem to get a connection, but the strength is only 33% and the
browser can't find anything. At the same time, using network tools, the
wlan does NOT show up under network devices??

I installed linux-wlan-ng, which I think just copies scripts and
documents to the hard drive. Ubuntu states:

"The standard Ubuntu kernel already contains all necessary drivers. This
package ships utilities and integration scripts to make above cards work
seamlessly with the Ubuntu network infrastructure." NEEDED OR NOT?

I also found information on NdisWrapper, a wrapper of Window wlan
drivers for several chip sets.

So, I seem to have two options to attempt to fix the wireless problem.
1. Somehow use the utilities in linux-wlan-ng. But it seems like the
needed modules are already installed

/lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/kernel/ubuntu/wireless/p54/prism54pci.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/kernel/ubuntu/wireless/p54/prism54usb.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/kernel/ubuntu/wireless/p54/prism54common.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/kernel/ubuntu/wireless/prism2/p80211/p80211.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/kernel/ubuntu/wireless/prism2/prism2_plx.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/kernel/ubuntu/wireless/prism2/prism2_usb.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/kernel/ubuntu/wireless/prism2/prism2_pci.ko

(Although windows says the chip set is prism3.)

2. Learn and use NdisWrapper.

Any advice!

Mike