"Have you ever had this computer connected to any wireless network?

Is this a brand new router or a second-hand one?"

Hello David. Yes it's my router and I've had it for awhile, but I was using it
under Windows.

It is working now thanks to all of the subtle direction I received from you,
Mike and others, Thank You All, for the time you spent thinking and posting
about my router problem.

My biggest issue was that I had never set anything like this up before. Well,
not without some kind of "plug and play" software running under Windows.

One of the reasons that I moved on to Linux is because it forces me back into
the books from time to time and I actually learn something whenever I enter into
an area I've never been in before and I like that.

The other wireless network you alluded to is in the HP computer that I use as my
Linux box, it's built in, and initially I thought that it might have been
causing some kind of conflict issue, but it really wasn't. Another issue was my
incomplete understanding of how the router and the wireless stuff in Ubuntu
worked together, and unfortunately I still have a lot to learn about that aspect
of the OS.

But at the end of the day with your help and others I was able to get it up and
running, so thanks again everyone.