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(Get the code!)
I'm an ignorant newbie who just installed Ubuntu 8.04.1 Kernel 2.6.24-19 generic on an Advent 4211B (? = MSI Wind). One of my (fruitless) attempts to get the wifi card working was with Ndiswrapper. I had previously been using a wired connection to my Linksys WRT54G router, which connected to the internet via a cable modem and Telstra Bigpond as a service provider.
The above problem came up accompanied by 2-3 minute pauses before any application would run. I fixed it using the suggestion from Serenity:
"go to the System Control Panel in the GUI:
"->Admin -->Network ---> UNLOCK ----General: Remove Domain Name
"Go to Hosts (Under Network) - delete 127.0.1.1
"Add 127.0.1.1"
However - and this is reason for this post - I was fascinated to find that "Hosts" had contained references to Telstra which must have been acquired somehow by the network/wifi driver from some interrogation of the router. Since the problems only started after running ndiswrapper, I presume that this is responsible, but just how I cannot imagine.