I don't know anything about Linux, but I had a bright idea to install it on an old laptop in place of XP and have tried numerous 'distros' on LiveCD but mouse and wifi don't work.

Compaq Presario 711AP, triumphantly installed SuSE on its 5gb HDD (it took 3 hours to install, sat on 80% file copying for hours), managed to find a USB mouse that works.

It doesn't see my Pluscom WU-ZD1211B WiFi dongle (which works perfectly on the same laptop with XP installed). I've downloaded and saved the driver on a USB mp3 player which I know is recognised by my SuSE.

From trawling this forum I see that I've got to use 'ndiswrapper' (I think that's what it is but have seen it so many times with typos I'm not sure).

Please would you tell me what to do - I mean EVERY STEP, EVERY KEYSTROKE - I bet I've got to use Terminal :wacko:

(Honestly I've tried reading online books, but am driven mad trying to find the right pages amongst hundreds in PDF docs whose indexes are wrong...)

It's a much dreaded, very signifiicant birthday in 15 minutes' time, so please be patient :unsure:

clemenzina