Thank you for responding to my problem. I think we are talking about
the same thing here. To clarify I spent all day yesterday trying to
get to the bottom of the problem and here is what works:

The module needs to be loaded at boot time, using terminal and the
command (ifconfig ath0 up) starts the device up then it shows up on
the connection dropdown.

Now I need help with:

As a newbee I have only followed printed step by step instructions
while using the terminal, Heck, I had to fight to change directories
(looked it up in ubuntu reference). When you talk about using chmod
and editing a file I am lost! What file can I change so I can add the
command that will load the ath0 device, for an automatic start-up.

I figure by the time everything is working I may know enough to help
others. Programs like Open Office and Firefox sold me on the open
Source community, helping me to try Linux flavors. I can see why many
plug and play MS users reject Linux even if a working Linux system
will give them less headaches in the future. Maybe if ndiswrapper was
automatic for Wifi devices and other windows type devices that could
be fooled with later by those wanting to play with the system, MS
would have serious competition.

I have a book on PHP that tells people how to set there computer up as
a server to use as a test system. The author simply tells those that
use Linux, that he assumes if you have a Linux system you know
everything, how can that help Linux become main stream? Maybe it is
because the author has no idea how to set-up an apache server using
PHP on Linux, but for the reader who paid for his book, he should just
say so, such comments reduce the number of future Linux users.