Hardy not recognising wireless card but xubuntu does

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Brand new installation of Hardy won't recognise my wireless card, but Xubuntu does. Both installed via "alternative" cd downloaded within the last two days.

Hardy:

ed@office:/# lshw -C network
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: RT2600 802.11 MIMO
vendor: RaLink
physical id: b
bus info: pci@0000:01:0b.0
logical name: wmaster0
version: 00
serial: 00:16:b6:5d:56:5e
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt61pci latency=64 module=rt61pci multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
Xubuntu:

ed@office:/# lshw -C network
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: RT2600 802.11 MIMO
vendor: RaLink
physical id: b
bus info: pci@0000:01:0b.0
logical name: wmaster0
version: 00
serial: 00:16:b6:5d:56:5e
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt61pci ip=192.168.1.101 latency=64 module=rt61pci multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
ed@office:/#
JUST WHAT IS GOING ON? Same computer, different partitions.

Also, before these installations, I was running Hardy and was able to use a much higher screen resolution. Both these installations default to 800x600 with nothing higher available. Again same monitor as before and it did 1280 and 1024 resolutions. Where should I go to get these recognised? (and where should I go to get British spellchecking - this thing keeps red-lining recognise!)

*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: 82810 (CGC) Chipset Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=i810_smbus latency=0 module=i2c_i810


Please help, as I can't get to synaptics on the ubuntu side to get my various bits for the new install.