Linux On My Samsung

I tried installing the drivers from the Samsung Italy site (my friend also has an NC10 that he purchased in Italy that is able to connect no problem) and installed them with ndiswrapper, but there's been no change in connectivity. Any thoughts?

Apologies for the super formal post, but I fired this off to Samsung and got no response, and would rather just paste it in than re-type it. Ubuntu is my daily driver, but I can't solve the problem on XP, either. If someone can even just tell me "sorry dude, you're screwed" that would be b...