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Please Please answer this question in beginner/newbie talk because i don’t understand a lot of the terminal talk. P.S. try to avoid answering by saying i have to use the terminal to open ndiswrapper. But if that’s the only way then please explain.

First I am a complete Linux idiot, so any response will need to be written for a 5th grader!

MCNLive is based on Mandriva 2007.1, and has the ndiswrapper 1.2 pre installed. I am able to get my wifi card working via ndiswrapper in OpenSUES so I know for sure my network card is compatiable. I believe that the version of ndiswrapper installed on MCNLive is too old, so my question is……….. How would I go about updating the ndiswrapper? The ndiswrapper websight has a version to download, but all of the documentation is offline and the MCNLive fourms are in Dutch (and I do not know Dutch). The package manager does not have a newer version either.

Thanks in advance for any help!
Where would one look for the ftp address? I can find the sourceforge version. Remember 5th grader answers! Thanks for the first answer..

can someone please tell me how to get it working? it recognizes my card… but it wont connect… i see all these things about doing stuff with ndiswrapper or something like that and i dont understand it because im new to linux. im not completely stupid with computers… im just not familiar with linux at all. please be very thorough and try to keep it simple at all costs.

also how do you get beryl working?

Hey, I am trying to install OpenSuse 10.3 and getting rid of Vista; but i do not know how to setup the wireless connection. I can not find what chipset its using, tried ndiswrapper with no luck; anyone help pleaseee
thanks

Alrite so earlier today i installed openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 on my laptop everything is working pretty smoothly accept i cant connect to my wireless network at home – my Linux sees the wireless card which is a dell 1390 wireless but i cant connect to the network (works when i use my ethernet cable though)

Anyways so i think the problem is in the drivers, so i though ill try installing Ndis wrapper, downloaded the tar ball un tarred it and tried installing it, but that didnt work, just gave me errors when i was trying commands like MAKE MAKE INSTALL… and all that other bs the documentation tells me to do. But no luck.

Any idea on how i can get this to work? or how to install NDISwrapper?
hey i got NDISwrapper working so i transfered the module wvr no luck still, and the wireless card still doesnt want to connect.