HI i'm a newbie and i know alot of you people are tired of heraing that from people like me. I'm trying to learn and i have done a lot of looking on google before i even signed up on here. After a couple of weeks with getting no where i have decided that talking directly to someone on a forum would be a better choice. I need help setting up my wireless internt on damn small linux. I have tried ndiswrapper and prism 2 and all the internet tools on there. They all fail and one of them tells me no network card is found. I know my network card works bc im using it right now on vector linux. I have also tried the wired internt on damn small linux, it doesn't work either. Can someone please help me? I'm using a belkin usb wireless adaptor f5d7050 if that helps out any for anyone thats trying to help me.

Hi,

First of all, IMHO since you are relativly new to linux, you shouldn't start with a minimal dist. I think that you would have a much better experiance from a "normal" dist such as Fedora, OpenSuse, Ubuntu, Mandriva, etc.
These dists have a much wider array of drivers/software avalible in their repos which should make it easier to install hardware.

Now to you problem...
I don't really know how well usb-network cards are supported but i guess a real pci-card is better.
Do you see the card at all? if you type, in console,
tail -F /var/log/message
then you plugin the device, what does it say???
If you get any info here this could help you in your search for proper drivers.

what distro would you recomend? i have a 334.1 mhz processor, 192mb of ram, and a 4.3 gb hard drive.

Well since you don't have that much in the way of hardware I would say Slackware since you are familier with damn small linux. If I recall correctly damn small is based on slackware.
I quess others might work too but the latest gui's(kde4, gnome2.6) might be too much for your computer.
A few gui that could work is xfce, fluxbox. These are lightweight and dosen't require much hardware.

Well i have vector linux light 5.8 installed on my hard drive right now. It runs really slow, but i want to get a p2p program to work, but i dont know what im doing. i have tried to install ktorrent and i did, but it wont run. Can you help me with this?

You could try azureus... it is a java-driven program so it can be alittle slow but it easy to use.

Regarding Ktorrent....
Do you get any error if you start it from a konsole??
Do you use KDE as a window environment??

Have you tried using PuppyLinux instead of DSL? I'm a huge DSL fan, but I too get tired of the aggravation trying to get wireless to work with it. PuppyLinux seems to have a little more "plug-n-play" capabilities. I think it's a fuller-featured distro for beginners running on older hardware that can't handle one of the big boys.

(FYI: DSL is based on Knoppix/Debian, not Slackware.)