I installed Kubuntu this evening and it seemed to load all right except I cannot get it to even see my wireless adapter (a Linksys WUSB54G -- USB adapter). I did extensive Googling prior to installing, and I thought I had it sorted with NDISWrapper, at least on the Ubuntu forums in the wireless hardware list other folks had said that this wireless adapter worked with NDISWrapper. The issue is that this computer on which I've installed Kubuntu is on a different floor than the computer with the DSL modem and wireless router, so wireless is the only internet connection it will have. There's no way to set up a wired connection on this machine apart from lugging it downstairs, and temporarily hooking up the other computer's ethernet cable.
However, to get started, that is what I did; I then went into Adept and downloaded ndiswrapper-common and ndiswrapper-utils-1.9. Once they were installed I went into Konsole (bear in mind I'm a total newbie, with only a few weeks' experience in Linux, so please tell me if I did something wrong here), navigated to the directory in which I'd copied my Windows driver files for the wireless adapter, and entered the following comand (as instructed on several webpages I'd found regarding setting up wireless connections in K/Ubuntu): sudo ndiswrapper -i wusb54g.inf. The system returned the message Installing wusb54g... and after a few seconds returned a command prompt, so I assumed it had worked. However, issuing an iwconfig still returned the following: lo no wireless extensions, eth0 no wireless extensions and that was it. Kubuntu still sees no router at all, even after installing the driver with ndiswrapper.
Can anyone help please?
EDIT: I forgot to mention: When I try to go to K > Internet > KNetworkManager, nothing happens; KNetworkManager won't load. I don't know if that is connected to this issue or not.
However, to get started, that is what I did; I then went into Adept and downloaded ndiswrapper-common and ndiswrapper-utils-1.9. Once they were installed I went into Konsole (bear in mind I'm a total newbie, with only a few weeks' experience in Linux, so please tell me if I did something wrong here), navigated to the directory in which I'd copied my Windows driver files for the wireless adapter, and entered the following comand (as instructed on several webpages I'd found regarding setting up wireless connections in K/Ubuntu): sudo ndiswrapper -i wusb54g.inf. The system returned the message Installing wusb54g... and after a few seconds returned a command prompt, so I assumed it had worked. However, issuing an iwconfig still returned the following: lo no wireless extensions, eth0 no wireless extensions and that was it. Kubuntu still sees no router at all, even after installing the driver with ndiswrapper.
Can anyone help please?
EDIT: I forgot to mention: When I try to go to K > Internet > KNetworkManager, nothing happens; KNetworkManager won't load. I don't know if that is connected to this issue or not.
but I can't afford to buy a new copy of Windows!) has a 64-bit AMD Athlon processor. I didn't even think of that. Is there anything I can do, short of trying the 32-bit distro of Kubuntu? I'd like to take advantage of the fact that I have a 64-bit CPU if I can, but I suppose it's more important to have a working slower computer than a non-working faster one... 
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