Wireless internet adapter for Linux?

Damn Small Linux Wireless Internet Issues?

• I have an old IBM laptop which has small amounts of memory, so I decided to put Damn Small Linux on it. I have used DSL before running within Windows off of a flash drive and it connected to the internet fine. When I got DSL onto my laptop however, it did not connect to the internet automatically, and when I manually tried, it also failed. I searched the internet for answers and found out that I needed to get the driver for my wireless adapter (Belkin F5D7050) and then use ndiswrapper to get it to work on linux. After trial and error, I finally found the right driver, transferred it to my IBM, and set it up with ndiswrapper until finally I got the message Driver Installed, Hardware Present. I then tried connecting to the internet and it still failed. I tried iwconfig, and wlan0 did not show up. The same thing for ifconfig. I have no idea why this is happening... Any help please?!?!

• Answer:

  one would have thought that by going to DSL user group forum you would get a quicker answer, I will suggest you download puppy linux I downloaded it yesterday for a 10 yr old dell I have, On running it from the live cd, I found that you can do a wireless hardware search, it is like everything else with Linux it seems hard to do Things were hard to do in windows before one got to know how to search and install hardware drivers, if you could find the right drivers stick with linux no matter what, in the end everything will fall into place and use the user forums that is the best place to get the right answers,