ndiswrapper update

[utu]

. Connected right up to my phones wireless signal.

Sounds like you've done it.
ndiswrapper-dkms is source material;
if you aren't compiling your own kernel module, you don't need it.

It may be that the dkms material is more suited to another kernel than that
which is in Knoppix.

Are you on-line and surfing?