Linux wireless drivers running under Android
 

My MSI Wind U135 has a wireless card that was a pain to install even though the developer releases a linux driver, I had to compile from source and install. and even after that, wicd would not work, I had to use nm-applet. Anyway, I have installed Android (I'm now quad-booting, Linux, Android, Kolibri, Menuet), and I would like to get my wireless working in android so I can start messing with it. Android is Linux, it just uses its own userspace, and not the normal GNU userspace. I know that most Linux applications do not run in Android because of the userspace difference, but I was wondering if drivers Linux drivers will work in Android. I assume that they will because drivers do not rely on userspace, but before I waste a lot of time, I figured I would ask you guys in case you know. Also, will the Android wireless manager work with that driver? Using that driver causes the wireless interface to come up as ra0 instead of wlan0, that was a small issue with wicd, but I could fix with a settings change.
Hope you don't think this is off-topic. Android is Linux, this is a Linux forum, not a GNU/Linux forum. I wasn't sure if this was really a hardware or software question, I hope hardware was the right choice.

Well, this would be better in the Mobile Linux forum as the people with the most Android knowledge would be in there. Not sure what you mean by this not being a GNU/Linux forum though, as it certainly is. The only pure Linux board on this site would be the kernel sub-board, technically.

The Android kernel is a slightly forked version of the regular kernel, so at least some device drivers should complie against it (as long as they aren't patches), though I don't personally know the steps that would be required for building a new kernel image for Android. As for it's network manager, I doubt it is going to handle things like unexpected device names very well, you have to remember that as a mobile OS largely intended for portable electronics where the hardware is always well known and isn't going to change, very little autodetection or anything like that is built in.