So, I finally got the wireless card from my friend Judy. I installed it and, sigh, nothing happened. The machine didn't even recognize it was present. I was pretty sure that the card was seated properly, so I threw up my hands, went to my friendly-neighborhood electronics store and bought a D-Link wireless G card.
While I had the box opened installing this new card, I took a moment to change the BIOS to remove the Away-Mode and to set the machine to automatically boot during Power On.
I installed the card, plugged in the power cord, which caused the machine to automatically boot. After booting, the Find New Hardware dialog came up and I canceled it. Instead I followed D-Link's instructions and installed the D-Link software, which installed the Drivers and configured the network. It asked questions about the name of the network and the WEP security key. I entered this information and the wireless network came right up.
As I was afraid, the signal strength is not terrific, around 45%, but I think that it will do for now.
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