1) I'm completely new to Linux and struggling trying to get my Linksys WP11 wireless card. Does anyone know where I can get the latest drivers and not have to rebuild/compile?

2) If I have to do a rebuild/recompile I assume that I need the source code for the kernel available on the system?

Thanks in advance for all help.

I'm going to ride along with this post, because I'm having the exact same problem. My wireless card is the WPC11 ver 3. I'm running SUSE 9.1 Pro on a Dell. The card seems to work, excpet that it doesn't get an IP address from my DHCP server. The two lights on the card are solid, indicating that there's power and that it's connected to an access point.

ifconfig shows some data for it - namely the MAC address, and a whole bunch of stats, but no IP address. I can bring it up and down with ifconfig no problem, but it never gets the IP (it is set to receive one, too).

If I handjamb the IP address manually into it, it's assigned, but I can't communicate with anything - not even the router. I can ping the local host and the IP address that I put in there, but nothing else.

Wired networking works fantastically.

It's an old thread, but maybe someone will answer it.

Since it's not with ndiswrapper I can't help you much but a search on google turned up which driver it is with installation instructions:
http://www.google.com/search?q=linux...-US:unofficial

If you need to recompile you'll need the source. However I'd try first if the options you need (networking wireless non-hamradio) is turned on cause if it is it saves you some work.

If you want to use you need a dhcp program like dhcpcd. If you do dhcpcd wlan0 (or any other interface if you use that) after you've set the essid it'll get the info.

After you've set the essid and the IP address you should be able to ping to the router unless you use any other protection like WEP.