mounting drives and using a dell 1490 wireless card

[dugh]

Whatever you finally changed in recent updates to Gutsy, thanks. My external drive finally mounts when I turn it on, no more error messages requiring me to create my own mounting script that adds the -force flag.

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/thedevice /media/MyDrive -o force

Anyone know how to get a Dell 1490 wireless card working reliably in Gutsy? It worked fine in Feisty using these instructions for ndiswrapper:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=297092

The restricted driver gutsy uses doesn't work most of the time. I disabled it and installed ndiswrapper (from their site), but wireless still occasionally doesn't work.
Some times the NetworkManager is taking up 100% of one of my processors, and other times when I try to disable or enable wireless or wired in the Network control panel it just hangs.

[dugh]

Restarting the network on the command line seems to work when things go bad:

sudo /etc/dbus-1/event.d/25NetworkManager restart
sudo ifconfig eth1 down
sudo ifconfig eth1 up
sudo dhclient eth1

Also this might possibly fix suspend/hibernate issues:

sudo apt-get install uswsusp
sudo dpkg-divert --rename --divert /usr/sbin/pmi-disabled /usr/sbin/pmi
sudo apt-get install splashy splashy-themes

#test suspend
#sudo s2disk

##to restore pmi for hibernation
## sudo dpkg-divert --rename --remove /usr/sbin/pmi

#if usb doesn't work on resume:
sudo rmmod uhci_hcd ehci_hcd
sudo modprobe uhci_hcd ehci_hcd