Hi, ive installed debian sarge on a laptop with 2.4.27 kernel. I have a D-Link DWL-610 wireless network card and there are no linux drivers for it. Ive looked at other posts and have installed ndiswrapper, and used the command

ndiswrapper -i <drivername>
to install the driver. After typing

ndiswrapper -l

it shows that my driver and hardware are present as the output from this command says:

netdwl driver present, hardware present

so I assume everything has gone well and the card is installed, but no lights have shown up on my network card, and a wlan0 entry isnt yet present, I dont know what to do next! Can anyone help?

Thanks, warydig.

To load the ndiswrapper module:
The card should now show up as wlan0

thanks for your reply, but ive already done that, do you have any other suggestions?

Using a recent kernel and taking the linux driver?

I don't know this card but it seems to be supported by http://rtl8180-sa2400.sourceforge.net/
But there are probably limitations (WEP only?), maybe somebody can answer.

there is a linux driver??? thanks that helps loads! Will it work on a 2.4 kernel? ive tried installing a 2.6 kernel but it just freezes during boot!