Hello, my laptop hard drive recently gave out on me, leaving my laptop unusable. In the meantime, I decided to burn a Knoppix CD so I can still use my laptop. I realized that the network card wouldn't necessarily work. I have the Linksys WPC54G card (On the bottom it says WPC54G-2.) I hopped online to find several guides on how to get it to work, and many success stories. So I copied several versions of the Linksys drivers to a USB drive, along with several versions off the ndiswrapper compatibility site. I used ndiswrapper -i <inf file> and then modprobe ndiswrapper, but the card was not recognized. iwconfig complains that there are "no wireless extensions." So I ndiswrapper -e the driver and try another one, and run through all 4 or 5 drivers, with none of them working. I was hoping someone could help me come up with a solution, because I really don't want to have to trash my laptop, or even worse... Put Windows back on it.

Before you all yell at me that this has been answered several times before, believe me, I spent 2 days searching for answers all over the web in every place I could think of... I even asked on some IRC chats, but nobody can seem to help, so I figured coming to the creators and long-time users who know the OS better could help me out...

Any and all help is greatly appreciated,
-Laptop765

lspci output for card

lspci -v:
0000:02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Linksys WPC54G
Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 11
Memory at 10400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8k]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

lspci -vn:
0000:02:00.0 0280: 14e4:4320 (rev 02)
Subsystem: 1737:4320
Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 11
Memory at 10400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8k]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2