hey there,
So I'm a bit of a noobie...I have given up on linux previously because of my wireless issues...but I was determined to get it down this time.

So I installed ndiswrapper. At first I tried using the drivers from HP's website, but none of them worked, ndiswrapper would install the driver but no hardware would be found. So I followed the instructions of this forum post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766169

For the first time, ndiswrapper said hardware found when I installed those drivers, however, when I open network, my wireless does not show up.
When I typed lshw -C network into the terminal it gave me this:


Code:
PCI (sysfs)  
  *-network               
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: MCP67 Ethernet
       vendor: nVidia Corporation
       physical id: a
       bus info: pci@0000:00:0a.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: a2
       serial: 00:1e:68:64:c9:c4
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=forcedeth driverversion=0.61 ip=192.168.1.141 latency=0 maxlatency=20 mingnt=1 module=forcedeth multicast=yes
  *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Ethernet controller
       product: AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter
       vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       version: 01
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
The first one is my wired connection, obviously. the second is my wireless...I don't completely understand what all of that means though...the "network UNCLAIMED" worries me.

Any help here would be awesome...I've spent the last two hours around these forums and google without too much help.