All I used was a driver called: "linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre11.tar.gz". Follow instructions with the driver and then a system reboot is needed. That should take you five minutes and you then should be on the interenet.

Well I got this card working with the Linux-wlan-ng drivers. It took me a long time of nothing but experimenting until for no apparent reason I decided to try to install them on a freshly compiled 2.6.7 kernel with no Prism drivers what so ever(Mandrake kernels come with useless Prism drivers that mess everything up). After installing the kernel and the drivers I got everything to work perfectly. The card runs very well and online gaming is a breeze. Thumbs up.

Well it worked, im using the linux-wlan-ng pre21 driver, though ive never gotten it to work WITHOUT the wlan-ng driver... and i would really like to get away from wlan-ng.

Now, these things are fairly outdated (I mean, they're 802.11b, while Linksys is already selling 802.11n routers and receivers, which average to speeds around twice that of normal ethernet). That said, they work well for their purpose.

I didn't want to touch linux-wlan-ng, as it looked like a dirty hack and I didn't want to touch it. Instead, I went with ndiswrapper (http://ndiswrapper.sf.net). It works well and is very easy to use with the MN-510. IF YOU ARE RUNNING AN x86 KERNEL. See below on how to set it up with ndiswrapper.

I got a new computer with a (64-bit) Intel Core 2 processor (and of course compiled my kernel for x64), and I tried to hook it up to that, but I then realized that the drivers Microsoft provided for it (which I used with ndiswrapper) were only 32-bit. So now I'm probably going to have to buy an ethernet bridge.

Anyway, the setup of ndiswrapper is really easy. I tried this with ndiswrapper 1.16:

1. Build Linux kernel. Alternatively, with Debian, you can just do apt-get install linux-image-<version> linux-kernel-headers kernel-sources-<version> or something like that.
2. Download and extract ndiswrapper source.
3. Compile ndiswrapper:
   
   Code:

   % export KVER=2.6.18
   % make
   .....some output.....
   % make install
   .....some output.....
   % ndiswrapper -m
   Adding alias directive "wlan0=ndiswrapper" to /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper
   % cd /cdrom
   % ndiswrapper -i mn510.inf
   Installing mn510
   % ndiswrapper -l
   mn510    driver present, hardware present
   % ifup wlan0

   Of course, this assumes that you have Microsoft's driver CD for the MN510 mounted at /cdrom, and that you already have wlan0 configured in /etc/network/interfaces.