Hello, thank you for your quick response. Soon after my last post my system crashed and I had to reinstall Linux. This, however, may have been a good thing. My network card appears to be working like it should now, I am both sending and receiving packets. Only problem now is that I am still disconnecting every now and again out of no where. As for the "/sbin/lspci -v" response, for whatever reason I don't have a file by that name. I have lspnp but not lspci.
Thanks again for your help
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Chet
P.S. I also plan to try dual-booting Ubuntu and Windows XP. If anyone has any suggestions on how to easily accomplish this it would be greatly appreciated.