First of all let me apologise for being thick secondly for my typing and spelling skills. Now that's out the way PLEASE HEEEEELLLPPPP.

I have a cheap ass laptop Pii 266 MHz 4.1 GB HDD 128 MB ram I have just installed Linux Xandros on it and it got all the hard ware except my network card witch is a D-Link DWL 610. I have done some research with the aid of google and found it is supposed to be compatible with the realtek 8180 chip set and the D-link DWL-510. So my question is how do I change the driver in Linux to tell it to use the realtek 8180 drivers or the DWL-510 windows has a device manger HEEELLLPPP.

Thanks

What do you see when running 'lsmod'?

Module Size Used by
ds 18308 4
ipx 28844 0
p8022 2432 1 ipx
psnap 4228 1 ipx
llc 7828 2 p8022,psnap
speedstep_lib 4228 0
cpufreq_userspace 7640 0
cpufreq_powersave 1920 0
battery 9476 0
fan 4100 0
button 6800 0
toshiba_acpi 6164 0
thermal 13320 0
processor 18728 1 thermal
ac 4996 0
uhci_hcd 31376 0
ohci_hcd 21124 0
ehci_hcd 28932 0
usbcore 114660 5 uhci_hcd,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd
dm_mod 55420 0
evdev 9088 0
tsdev 7360 0
psmouse 20232 0
8250_pnp 8448 0
8250 18816 1 8250_pnp
serial_core 22528 1 8250
floppy 57680 0
ide_floppy 18048 0
sg 33184 0
sr_mod 17444 0
ide_cd 40224 1
cdrom 38300 2 sr_mod,ide_cd
sd_mod 14608 0
scsi_mod 79424 3 sg,sr_mod,sd_mod
yenta_socket 20480 1
pcmcia_core 63300 2 ds,yenta_socket
lp 10664 0
parport_pc 31936 1
parport 39240 2 lp,parport_pc
autofs4 19204 2
pppoe 14528 0
pppox 3848 1 pppoe
ppp_synctty 9984 0
ppp_async 11392 0
crc_ccitt 2176 1 ppp_async
ppp_generic 30100 4 pppoe,pppox,ppp_synctty,ppp_async
slhc 8192 1 ppp_generic
reiserfs 259540 1
ide_disk 18816 3

hope this helps

Hmm, that's a lot running - the question is which driver is it starting instead of the one you want. On the above list can you identify it? If so you could blacklist it in /etc/hotplug/blacklist (this is where it is for Slackware) so it doesn't get loaded. I had to do this so my sound card and alsa would work as another driver was interferring.

as far as i am aware there is no driver loaded for it