wireless set-up in Ubuntu

blazerazor

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Aug 28, 2003
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Ok, so I using Ubuntu Drapper Drake and I have a Netgear ma521 cardbus card. I apt-get the Ndiswrapper and have BOTH Realtek 8180L drivers and the ones from Netgear. Here is a piece of 'dmesg'

[17183624.672000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
[17183624.672000] rtl8180: Memory mapped space @ 0x22000000
[17183624.672000] rtl8180: MAC controller is a RTL8180
[17183624.672000] rtl8180: This is a CARDBUS NIC
[17183624.672000] rtl8180: Reported EEPROM chip is a 93c56 (2Kbit)
[17183624.676000] rtl8180: Card MAC address is 00:09:5b:21:93:0b
[17183624.688000] rtl8180: EEPROM version 102
[17183624.688000] rtl8180: RfParam: 5
[17183624.688000] rtl8180: Card reports RF frontend by Philips.
[17183624.688000] rtl8180: OK! Philips SA2400 radio chipset is supported.
[17183624.688000] rtl8180: Analog PHY found
[17183624.688000] rtl8180: Energy threshold: b
[17183624.688000] rtl8180: PAPE from CONFIG2: 6
[17183624.688000] rtl8180: Antenna A is default antenna
[17183624.688000] rtl8180: Antenna diversity is enabled
[17183624.688000] rtl8180: Carrier sense 1
[17183624.692000] rtl8180: 40-bit WEP is NOT supported in hardware
[17183624.692000] rtl8180: 104-bit WEP is NOT supported in hardware
[17183624.692000] rtl8180: IRQ 11
[17183624.692000] rtl8180: Driver probe completed
[17183624.692000]
[17183990.396000] e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link down
[17184426.396000] e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
[17184718.224000] rtl8180: Bringing up iface
[17184718.504000] rtl8180: Card successfully reset
[17184718.860000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[17219617.852000] ibm_acpi: ec object not found
[17244590.396000] e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link down
[17244590.840000] spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
[17245774.396000] e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex

And here is driver list::
oem@ubuntu:~$ ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
net8180 invalid driver!
netma521 invalid driver!

Any ideas what I am doing wrong here?
Thanks ahead of time guys for any input here.