I have loaded Mint over the Ubuntu. It’s working too. Still having wifi problems. I have been through the Mint forums and not getting any real solutions.
Mint knows the card it there. It just won’t connect to my wireless router. I used the Windows wireless drivers tab to load the .inf file for the Linsys card.
Not sure I really have the time to make this a project. I thought it would be simpler. I am going to try to connect the PC to a cable to the router.
Ah. This is the difference between using native drivers and using ndiswrapper.
ndiswrapper is a hack to let Linux use Windows drivers. It works, but only for small values of work.
If you want full support, like WPA, you need to use a card that uses native drivers.
ndiswrapper doesn't support encryption on every card that it "supports."