OK, I just did lspci -vv and if returned this about the D-Link card at issue:

00:09.0 Ehternet Controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.: Unkown Device 8180 (rev 20)
Subsystem: D-Link System Inc: Unknown Device 3303
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ RapErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 64(8000ns min, 16000ns max), cache line size 08
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 12
Region 0: I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
Region 1: Memory at dfffde00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management Version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-)
Status: DO PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

This is the output for the wireless card? If so, it's got a realtek chipset, I'm off to check that out...be back in a few.

ps: don't worry about that "unknown device" stuff, the pci.ids file, which maps those numbers to names, lags a bit behind the curve.

I'm pretty certain that that is the output for the wireless card because I only have one D-Link product in the PC. I was under the impression that it was supposed to be Prism2. It is a DWL-250 Hardware Revision B.

naw, it's a realtek 8180, and it's the same chipset used in the linksys wpc11 version 4, search right here at linuxquestions' homepage on that linksys model number, I've seen a few success stories about it, alternatively, you can go to realtek's site and see if they have a linux driver for it, from what I just read, they just might, be careful, there are at least 2 variants, the 8180, and the 8180L, can't tell at this point which one you have.

Well that is actually very encouraging. Thank you. I just downloaded the drivers for both 8180 and 8180L. I'll play with them later and see if I can get online. Thanks for the help. I'll post again once I've tinkered with the drivers to the best of ability. Thanks again. And sorry for those who helped while I was under the impression that it was the prism2 chipset.

Please do post your success story, so others may benefit. here's a couple of links to other threads here that may give you some tidbits of useful info:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=61832
and
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=76385