Wireless disappers after restart, requires driver reload

[Goslowjimbo]

I am using a USB  adapter, Realtek 8188CUS with Ubuntu 10.04.3.  If I install the software supplied by Realtek, the interface works beautifully.  When I reboot, the wireless disappears, and it requires a reload of the driver.

I'm relatively new to Ubuntu, but have searched for this problem on the wireless help sites, and haven't seen this problem mentioned.  Every time I reload the driver, I get the error message that 8192CU (the driver) isn't in /proc/modules.  Don't know what that means, or if it is significant at all.  That is the only error I am getting, though, and it runs great after that.