Wireless working!

yep, that's right. After installing the package mentioned in my previous post via the terminal I went to the restricted drivers menu and activated the package/drivers. It had to download some firmware from the internet, and then all I had to do was reboot. After I logged in (making sure I had detached the ethernet internet connection) I went to the internet connection thingy up top and found and chose my home wireless network (no WPA at the moment, to keep things easy...).