I've found that ndiswrapper is pretty unstable on my laptop, and that it doesn't work at all on AMD64.
On my laptop I ended up going for the Madwifi option, as my wifi card has an Atheros chipset. Your LinkSys card seems to have a Broadcom chipset, unfortunately for which there is no native Linux support.
As Hsu stated, you have the option of ndiswrapper, but that may or may not work.
The way I got my LinkSys card to work on my desktop PC was by purchasing DriverLoader from <a href="http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/">Linuxant</a>.
DriverLoader is a piece of software that, much like ndiswrapper, will load the Windows driver and provide an interface for your card. The only difference is that DriverLoader has support and works on 64bit processors.
Having said that, definitely try ndiswrapper first.
EDIT:
To set up wired networking:
- First plug computer into router via ethernet
- Then open a terminal
- Type "sudo ifconfig eth0 up" *
- Type "sudo dhclient eth0" *
* You may need to change eth0 to eth1 or eth2
And you're connected.
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