I used to use Mandrake and found it very newbie friendly - oh by the way welcome on board the freethinkers train of linux users - as for it being easy with version ten not sure I have a free copy but have not had the time to use it - however it being Linux you have two or three no make that many choices on how you get this to work, some meathods will require brain power others are quite brainless in thier execution, madrake has a section that has RPM (package managers) to do all the hard work for you, but you are not tied to that method!
First of all you need to find out what chipset the card is using - there are a few common types, orinoco,prism, prism_2, these are the most common although I have not seen any support yet for a WiFi g card yet, what you do is try and look for the rpm or mandrake equivalents - download into a file you call comething you will understand, like My Downloads, then open another new file called Programs (easy for ex windows users to remember) and open another new file for the unzipped file you will put in the folder marked WiFi,
Next see if the file you have unzipped (use right click if you are right handed and have not changed the orientation of you mouse) and see if there is a file called configuire, if there is youre in bussines!
Oh next you need to open the xterm ( in windose its the dos box) and do the following type ls - which will give you the DIR equivalent of the D.O.S command - and see where your files are - they shoud be under ->your user name<- /home/your user name/programs/wifi/ if you have followed my instructions next to get to the directory do this cd /home/ your user name/programs/wifi/
then do ls again and you should see the unzipped folder
I have assumed that you have done all this by using your home folder on your desktop and know how to name a new folder?
Ok so far so good - then look again for the folder called configuire and highlight it and drag it to the cursor then press enter!
you should see a whole lotta stuff automatically scrolling past - *wait*
if it does not have configuire it should have automake - use that instead -
the nest thing is you should have some form of instruction telling you what to do next if you dont then type in "make"
you should see some stuff scrolling past again and then after that type in "make install" - As I say you should be able to see this instruction at the prompt by typing "ls" which will list the DIR contents - if it is there then youre away! It should technically speaking install the drivers in the right diorectories and your machine should be able to "see" the card. You might have to log out and back in for it to initialise but 99% of the time you should be ok.
Do yourself a favour and load a program called CVS it will make your life a little easier and the commands I have shown you will too - happy surfing!
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