I just installed "Mint" last night and would like to install my USB
wireless card. I have read through some of the other posts, but I'm
so new I don't have any idea what they are saying. Is there a driver out there for this device or not? All I've been able to find
is something called ndiswrapper, but that seems pretty complicated and well beyond my basic capabilities. Please help, I would like to
become a true Linux user, but so far I'm not feeling real good about it.

It could be easy. Depends on your distro and if so it may have a ndiswrapper package ready for your current running kernel.

The basics of ndiswrapper is this.
It use the windows inf driver for the neic to interface with ndiswrapper.

Installing ndiswrapper requirements. Once you understand this the rest should click.
Ndiswrapper is a module that is compiled to match your kernel. It requires the kernel source to be installed ont the drive of the current kernel you are running. This is located in /usr/src and the directory for it is usually linux-<version_numebr_of_kernel>. This is what is required to install from source. Following the readme and install docs from the source file expalin the compile and install procedure.

Now if the distro is like Fedora there are precompiled rpm packages that can be installed. Again the rpms for the kernel portion must match the kernel version you are running.

Now if you upgrade the kernel you must recompile the ndiswrapper or install matching rpms for ndiswrapper like under fedora. Copying the ndiswrapper modules from one kernel version to the other will not work.

Brian

Try heading over to this link, it is a howto for the instalation of this device on the SuSe platform, I have just finished getting it working myself.

http://nextgen.no-ip.org/~andrew/linux/ndiswrapper

he uses the command line to install and so long as you are able to use either yast or a similar tool to ensure that you have the required kernel modules you should be albe to get the thing to function.

One problem that I had though was getting the connection to work. I did eventually solve this however with the command

<< iwconfig wlan0 essid <yourSSID> >>

Right now I am trying to find out if anyone else has had this issue and how they manage to avoid needing to do this everytime at boot!