1. anything that configures the wlan0 card (ie. ifconfig wlan0 up)
2. i assume wireless tools are installed because i've issued iwconfig commands on this system before.
3. i loaded the module but not by using "modprobe ndiswrapper" i just used "ndiswrapper -m" but i've tried it both ways and neither worked.

if this matters, i have been having problems with that motherboard (its and AMD), but it was with one of the ide controllers, i don't think it matters, but it's here just in case...