In short; renaming my wireless from eth1 to wlan0 so that it matches ndiswrapper. Yes, I'm using precompiled packages, and the issue with the naming scheme is that in System>Administration>Networking the wireless card is named as eth1. I've just set up wlan0 with ndiswrapper, but I need to change one or the other so that they match. Otherwise, if I set up my Networking program, it'll be assigning everything to eth1, which has no connection to the ndiswrapper.....does that make sense? So I know it doesn't matter what it's called, but it does need to keep the same name..that's wherein the problem lies. Hope that clarifies where the issue is.