Please consider adding this to the wireless networking section of the wiki.
Step 1. Start out in windows
Step 2. Get the wireless adpater's drivers, For my averatec 3200 the Broadcom drivers (Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11g (rev 3)) from http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/List
Step 3. I placed bcmwl5a.inf and bcmwl5.sys on c:\
Step 4. Boot KNOPPIX CD
Step 5. In a root terminal mount /dev/hda1
Step 6. cd /dev/hda1
Step 7. Issue the following instructions
ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5a.inf
modprobe ndiswrapper
iwconfig wlan0 essid SSID [Replace SSID with yours, I use the default for my linksys router which is linksys]
pump -i wlan0
Step 8. Try a browser, it should be working.
I hope someone find this useful.
Please consider adding this to the wireless networking section of the wiki.
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