Hmm... I've managed to get a step further, and it's now reporting that it can intermittently see someone's wireless router. Sadly, it's still not seeing my linksys router... Possibly a signal strength thing, I might have to try and secure the aerial a bit more firmly (another reason to want a new card - the aerial is a bit loose and falls off if not secured).

I've also been trying to get WPA working, with no luck, so it is disabled on my router for the time being.

The issue that I was having was that the guides I was reading seemed to be expecting that I would not have the ndiswrapper already running. When I ran "modprobe ndiswraper", it was thus doing nothing. With "modprobe -r ndiswrapper" then "modprobe ndiswrapper", it finally reported finding wlan0.

Got BackTrack 2 downloaded and burnt, going to try and use it today.