Problems with OS and hardware compatibility on linux embedded board

Hi,

I'm a student engineer in Belgium and for our bachelorproject we use a linux embedded board. We use a Nano-ITX EPIA-NR10000EG. As operating system we choose to run Damn Small Linux from a USB stick. Until here everything works great, we have a wired internetconnection, every USB device we plug in works. So we are very happy with DSL.

But now it's essential that we have wireless internet and the school gave us a D-link dwl-g122 USB adapter. We tried, but didn't got it to work. After a while we found a potential usefull driver, but it was in a .zip file and there wasn't any extracting software on DSL?

My question for you is:
- Is it better to change to another distro that's more compatible with different hardware? If so, which one you suggest? DSL-N, UClinux, puppylinux? (we have 512 mb ram and 1,2 Ghz processor, but we want to have a small and fast distro). Also it would be easy to be able to have a software center, like ubuntu has.
- Or maybe someone can explain, or push us to the right direction, of how we can make the D-link work on DSL?

Thanks in advance,
probably I will be posting more questions here for the coming months,
since we really want to learn alot about linux.

I'm off reading through the forum now..

Use gzip to unzip files. Command line tool

gzip -d filename.zip

May or not work depending on the zip format.
http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/gzip/

read
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/i...Wireless_Cards
get drivers
http://homepages.vype.de/Peter.Misch...n_drivers.html