Wireless Driver Recognition Problem

This is a continuation of a previous question, that I fear may have got lost in the shuffle, as I am new to asking questions on this forum. So I am restating my problem below.

On my spare Dell computer, I have a 40GB hard drive to run my windows applications. Recently installed a new 80 GB hard drive on my PC to install and learn Linex Ubuntu.

I installed Ubuntu 7.10, apparently successfully. I followed the instructions "How to install WL12-PCI-G54 on edgy, but to no avail. I installed ndiswrapper, its utilities and ndsgtk. I also installed the bcmwl5 driver.

In network manager it indicates that the bcmwl5 driver is installed, and the hardware is present. The "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper" is listed in the modprobe.d file. Although when i type iwconfig, the list does not show wlan0, it lists under Etho 0. Also, when I type sudo iwconfig wlan0, it states No Such Device.

IN my network manager, I listed SSID as "'Linksys", and set the auto-configuration to DHCP.

I have a Buffalo wireless PCI Adapter (WLI2-PCI-G54S) which links to a Broadcom Linksys router, which runs fine with my windows program. Also, when I type sudo iwlist wlan0 scan, it states it does not support scanning????

When I type "iwlist eth0", I get an "unknown command -eth0" reply.

  I will paste the command output you requested in my question #22249 as you requested, and here:

  HERE IS iwconfig” OUTPUT:

  david@ubuntu:~$ iwconfig
  lo no wireless extensions.

  eth1 no wireless extensions.

  eth0 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"linksys" Nickname:"Broadcom 4306"
            Mode:Managed Access Point: Invalid
            RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
            Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=-256 dBm Noise level=-256 dBm
            Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
            Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

  david@ubuntu:~$

  AND

  HERE IS THE ¨sudo lshw -C Network¨ OUTPUT:

  david@ubuntu:~$ sudo lshw -C network
  [sudo] password for david:
    *-network:0 DISABLED
         description: Wireless interface
         product: BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller
         vendor: Broadcom Corporation
         physical id: 9
         bus info: pci@0000:02:09.0
         logical name: eth0
         version: 03
         serial: 00:0d:0b:cf:c4:be
         width: 32 bits
         clock: 33MHz
         capabilities: bus_master ethernet physical wireless
         configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bcm43xx driverversion=2.6.22-14-generic latency=64 link=no module=bcm43xx multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11b/g
    *-network:1
         description: Ethernet interface
         product: 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado]
         vendor: 3Com Corporation
         physical id: c
         bus info: pci@0000:02:0c.0
         logical name: eth1
         version: 78
         serial: 00:b0:d0:15:3d:02
         size: 10MB/s
         capacity: 100MB/s
         width: 32 bits
         clock: 33MHz
         capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
         configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=3c59x duplex=half latency=64 link=no maxlatency=10 mingnt=10 module=3c59x multicast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s
  david@ubuntu:~$

Can anyone help with why in network manager it recognizes the driver and hardware, but I cannot access the wireless network, and why it appears to have loaded properly, but does not recognize wlan0.????