Well I thought maybe Dan would have come in by now, but maybe it's night time over there by now...

All I can do is confirm that Linux and laptops/WIFI always seem to have problems.  It might be better by now, but I've tried many different distros and wrappers and drivers, and none of them seemed to work for me.  (And then there's the obvious things like trying to install to an external harddrive, WACOM tablet problems, and widescreen not immediately supported and all that.)  I kinda wanted Linux for stability when doing large images in GIMP, but it just never worked out well enough.  Sorry I'm not of any real help, but I didn't want to just leave the post blank and alll.... >_>;

What version of Ubuntu are you using? I can't give you exact directions without that, but I can attempt to point you in the right direction.

Ndiswrapper is basically a module Linux uses that allows Ubuntu to use Windows drivers for wireless cards. ndiswrapper is installed automatically by Ubuntu, but the ndiswrapper-utils is not, hence why you're seeing "Error: No ndiswrapper utils found." So, you'll need to install the ndiswrapper-utils package yourself. Once you install that, then the command you're using should work.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper

That's a link to information about ndiswrapper, which version to download, how to install it, etc.

Hopefully that helps. In fact, the site https://help.ubuntu.com/ is extremely helpful in general and I recommend checking it out. Every time I have an issue, I go there, and usually someone out there has already had the same problem I did.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessTroubleShootingGuide#head-e669905d73a32156274930398b3d3c3468508d45

That's a lot information about wireless/Wi-Fi connection in Ubuntu, so that might be helpful too.

disregard this thread and its sillyness.