Netgear Wg511 V1 On Suse 10.3 With Wpa

I am new to Linux as of yesterday. I've been searching these forums and others trying to fix my problem. Here is the summary.

Successfully installed OpenSuse 10.3 on an old Dell Latitude laptop. Plugged in Netgear WG511 v1 (Made in Taiwan). YaSt knows what the card, but warns I need firmware installed. Through a lot of reading, I've been led down a Prism54 path and a ndiswrapper path. The PC does not have an internet connection, but I'm connected on another PC with a USB flashdrive to move files, etc.

Last night I was able to install ndiswrapper from the CD and copy the .inf and .sys files for the driver from the USB flashdrive. Through the terminal, I installed the driver successfully and it also listed Prism54 as the alternate. The ndiswrapper site said to remove the alternate, but I wasn't able to.

Following the directions from the first page Google offers after searching "Netgear WG511 v1 Suse Linux WPA" I tried to do as much as I could. I created the hotplug directory it speaks of, moved the 1.0.4.3.arm file in there and renamed it ils3890, but I'm not sure if I ever installed the firmware right.

I've never had any winky blinky lights on the card yet and am at a loss for what to do next. This morning I re-installed Suse 10.3 and stopped.

I have the "firmware" .arm files from Prism54's site and Windows driver files from my PC on my USB drive. I know how to install ndiswrapper from the Linux CD. Does anyone know how I should proceed? I wasn't sure if I was mixing different approaches. All the information I found was also always a little off (e.g Suse 10.0, Netgear WG511 v2, etc.), so I didn't know if anything was different for my situation. Any help would be much appreciated. Also, my wireless router is running to other Windows PCs fine right now and has WPA setup.

Thanks,
Steve

A lot of information using ndiswrapper on openSUSE is found in http://www.andrewd18.com/ndiswrapper...erinfo-gui.php

can you also post the output of

/sbin/lspci -v from a console,so we can check it's the right driver,just to make sure

Andy

Following the directions from the first page Google offers after searching "Netgear WG511 v1 Suse Linux WPA" I tried to do as much as I could. I created the hotplug directory it speaks of, moved the 1.0.4.3.arm file in there and renamed it ils3890, but I'm not sure if I ever installed the firmware right.
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I think with 10.3 (and 2.6 kernels) it should go in /lib/firmware.

YaSt knows what the card, but warns I need firmware installed.[/b]

If Yast has indicated it should work with the firmware installed, I'd try that before getting involved with ndiswrapper.