The (not so) golden age of wireless?

[ewgoforth]

Hello,

I'm not a Linux expert by any means, but I used Linux (Red Hat) as my primary OS for around 5 years late nineties into the early 2000's. I've been using XP and Vista since then.

At any rate my "good" computer died and I've been sick of the sluggish performance of my old Dell with XP, I was looking for a reasonably full featured, but minimal installation so I chose tinyme.

I'm not seeing a lot of activity here for the last few months, I'm hoping that this distro hasn't been abandoned.

I'm trying to get my Linksys WUSB100 Rangeplus wireless adapter to work with copy of Tiny me, that I installed from TinyMe-Acorn-RC-2010.08.20.i586.iso.

I saved my driver CD to a USB key. I went to add a wireless adapter, I navigated to PureInstaller\adapter\xp\x86\rt2870.inf, but it tells me that it won't work with ndiswrapper. If at this point I go back and then forward I seen that it shows me the name of my wireless adapter in the list, but if I try to go forward, it still won't work.

I did some reading and it appears that I should try installing a newer version of ndiswrapper on my box. I downloaded ndiswrapper-1.56 and and followed the directions in INSTALL.

When I did an ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build as suggested, I didn't see 'include' directory and '.config' file, I'll try to get a screenshot of what I DID see.

I tried

make uninstall (worked ok)

I then tried
make but got errors.

I guess I probably don't have any ndiswrapper sofware at this point.

I assume that I need to create these symbolic links, can anyone tell me how?

Is the source for the kernel installed by default?

Thanks,
-Eric