Running Linux on a Dell Inspiron 2200
Dell Wireless 1470 DualBand WLAN Card
There is no native Linux driver for this card, but you can use NdisWrapper 1.2 included with SuSE 10.0 to use the Windows driver under Linux.For WPA encryption you also need wpa_supplicant 0.4.4 (also included with SuSE 10.0).
For a WPA-PSK installation you need to run these commands:
modprobe ndiswrapper iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed iwconfig wlan0 essid YourEssId ifconfig wlan0 1.2.3.4 up wpa_supplicant -Dndiswrapper -iwlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -Bw |