answer:First off, your best bet is to have the computer hooked up via Ethernet during the install process. That allows it to grab whatever drivers it needs from the internet auto-magically in most cases; Linux has surprisingly good Plug-and-play so long as it has an internet connection, and you can nearly always connect via Ethernet. Failing that, make sure there are no Linux drivers already there. Going into a terminal and typing lspci will give you a list of everything on the PCI bus, along with chipset IDs. The chipset IDs are what Plug-and-play systems use to determine the correct driver. To find out what drivers are loaded, type lsmod .If there is a driver already loaded, lsmod will reveal it. If not, it will reveal that too. If there isn’t already a driver loaded, or it is the incorrect driver. Messing with ndiswrapper (the “normal” way of putting a Windows driver into a Linux system) is a bit arcane and non-intuitive at times; best not to if it can be avoided.