I am sorry to bother with such a newb question.

I have a dell 600m running suse 9.2and xp.
I just set up the internal wifi card (dell truemobile 1400).
I used ndiswrapper and the driver bcmwl5(.sys &.inf).
I got through the procedure fine with the help of a nice wiki at ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net.

How do I get the card to "work" now?
With xp the card will tell me when a ap is near or available.
I would like to set my card to connect to my work ap + my friends AP + any ap anyone is willing to share.

Regards,
Blair

You should be laughing. You now need to
if you haven't already. Then just either configure using YAST tools or
this will grab a dynamic IP from your AP and you'll be good to go. You may also have to set WEP and the like if this is configure but I suggest you search lq answers on this site for more detailed info as this has been done a thousand times before.
Regards
Chris

I rushed that last post cuz I was doing to many things at once...

I understand how to get it to connect with my network.
I know my settings.

I was looking to use on campus...many people have free ap's. How would I be able to connect to their ap's without the info?
Xp tells me the ap's are there and their essid and whether its wep encypted or not. I am not sure how that works in linux...

Would I have to run a program like kismet to get the info on ap's then config wireless card with that info?

I know this is an easy concept I just can't seem to get it to "click" in my head.

Regards,
Blair

no need. just run
as root. That will give you all the gory details.
Regards
CHris

I am trying to configure my wireless card also, and I have completed the ndiswrapper installation, but when I run modprobe ndiswrapper I get the following error: FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found. However, when I do a ndiswrapper -L , the driver shows up and the hardware shows up. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Dustin

You need to re-run the install and then the driver install, both as root. Make sure there are no errors then try again.

The driver looks good and works when I enter my home network info.
I just wanted wireless roaming which I do not believe is the same in linux as in windows.

Blair

Well, not yet. There are several projects underway to get it up to speed in that sense. You may want to look at Network Manager from Red Hat.

I will check that out. thanks.
I also saw something "wpa_supplicant" somebody said would do roaming. I have not had time to check it out.

Regards,
Blair