ok partial yay...

I got it to install... and the lights came on on the card!

I did an iwconfig and there was some interesting stuff it had automatically connected to the acsess point, as I saw the name... but there was no internet connection :/

Above that it said 'warning driver for wlan0 recomends version of 18 of wireless extension, but has been complied with 16 therefore some driver features may not be availalbe'

any help with getting the internet to work wouldn't be missed ill go read around on the forums and google...

Looks like the ndiswrapper problems fixed bar a possible problem with that warning, but im assuming thats just with the driver.