Need help installing a driver or finding one that will work

I have a Dell desktop on which I have a partitioned hard drive XP and Xandros 4.0 operating systems.

I have an Ativa Wireless G usb adapter with the software disk on which I conect to the internet via XP, I am trying to configure this software to run in Xandros 4. (using a MS 2000 template install)

but cant get it to run the CD driver software supports XP and 2000 so the template install should work

Anyone have an Idea what I am doing wrong? and how to correct this I'm wanting to be able to configure it so I can connect to the internet in Xandros so that I can download updates

Is there a linux based driver for the ativa wireless usb card (looks like a flash drive with a stand and a cord)

any help is appreciated

Thanks in advance

 

Check out this site see if this helps

http://www.xandros.com/products/faqs.html

 

you need a package called "ndiswrapper"

This makes it possible to use the windows wireless drivers on linux.

A google search for "ndiswrapper" should provide some assistance in using it.

Gary

 

Good suggestions here but the thing about Debian and later Ubuntu derivatives is that sweet restricted driver manager , If you can't get it to work with available methods use one of the smaller foot print distro's based off Debian , Like Xubuntu.

 

PCLOS2009 has the ndiswrapper included with the kernel. I use the Ativa ODWGU.inf file with the ndiswrapper, instead of the Belkin USB2.0 WLAN, to get wireless up and running with the Ativa Wireless G USB Adapter. Dual booting PCLOS with XP Home, XP Pro, and Windows 7, on two desktops and one laptop. On the Windows 7 box I used GRUB as the loader (MBR) because the Windows 7 boot sector was on a different partition than the rest of the operating system, and at the time I was unaware of that fact, using NTLDR as the loader along with the pclosboot.lnx file, the line c:\pclosboot.lnx="PCLinuxOS" added to the boot.ini file, and Grub installed to / on the two Linux/ XP machines. If it wasn't such a pain getting wireless running on it I might still be using Ubuntu or Kubuntu today. I try to stick with Mandriva based distributions, and a Puppy, DSL, and Knoppix thrown in for fun and knowledge. Have Sun's latest distro's .iso on the desktop now, just need to burn it to give it a try. :-o

 

here is a link to a fairly good description of how to use ndiswrapper.
It is slanted toward suse, but it has all the infoneeded to make it work.
http://www.swerdna.net.au/linhowtowireless.html
swerdna does a good job of explaining things.

I have ndiswrapper installed on a dell inspiron 1200 with a dell wireless card - workes great