knoppix and dell inspiron 8200

I am new to linux and am running the knoppix live cd on a dell 8200 laptop. the cd boots and loads fine but i cannot get my linksys wpc11 v4 pcmcia card to work. i watched the boot process and saw that the pcmcia card manager loaded okay and eth0 loaded as well. When i go to network/internet and select Wavelan configuration i get a message that says no wireless network card found.
If i need to use ndiswrapper to install the drivers...How? If there is something else that i am doing wrong any help would be appreciated.
thanks in advance.