It's a lot of command line work. You have to install ndiswrapper and get the modules running, then you install the windows driver into ndiswrapper, then it should work.
Other flavors of linux come with ndiswrapper built into the GUI network card install, but Ubuntu might have a problem with the open sourciness.
It's a nice workaround for companies that won't make linux drivers and won't give up the source code for their windows drivers.
success!
ndiswrapper has a GUI that you can download and use, once i got that installed, it was very simple to load the windows drivers for my card.
and voila, I am posting from inside Xubuntu, on my wireless card.
now, to configure everything. download chrome, etc. etc. and also figure out how to give myself admin privileges, apparently I don't have access to everything, even though I am the only use on the computer.
or learn this "sudo" stuff. i wanna move the folder that my drivers are in off of my desktop, but I don't have permission to move them into the folder I want to put them in.
any clue how i change my admin rights so that I can do this?