First, I've only been using linux for a few days, so if anyone is kind enough to respond, any instructions are going to have to be pretty much spelled out for me step by step. The problem is that I have a Dell TrueMobile 1150 and its in the MiniPCI card slot, not the PCMCIA one. I'm using Ubuntu, and in the device manager, the card isn't listed, it just has athe Texas Instruments controlelr there and says that it's OEM vendor is Lucent. But the network configurator recognizes it as a wireless card and gives it the designation eth1. (eth0 is the wired NIC and wlan0 is a linksys WPC54G I'm using until I can fix the Dell card) The card is supposed to be using the orinoco_pci driver, I just don't know how to switch it to that and every web site out there seems to just assume that I do. Can someone please help me? Remember, it has to be very specific, otherwise, I'll just get stuck and have to ask more really noob questions. Thanks so much.

Edit: By the way, I'm using 2.6.10-5-386 and the orinoco_pci.ko file is already in /lib/moules/2.6.10-5-386/kernel/driver/net folder. I just need a way to change the active driver to that. Hopefully that will fix it. Any other suggestions on how to fix it are very much welcome. I already tried using ndiswrapper the standard way, it didn't do anything. Is there a special way I can use it?

Please, does anyone know how to just change the driver a piece of hardware is using? That's all I'm asking, it sounds like it wouldn't be to difficult. It's pretty easy to do in Windows, so it must not be to hard in Linux. The file is already on the computer and is a part of the linux kernel the distro came with. I just need to get the hardware to start using it. If that is impossible for some reason, does anyone know how to use a Windows miniPCI card driver on linux. Either one, especially the prior would be more than great. And if neither of those solutions are possible with Ubunutu, does anyone know of a distro that makes it easy to speicfy which file you want to use as a driver. My impression is that if it can be done in one distro, it can be done in all of them, but I'm just a noob. PLEASE, help.