Installing a new wireless network card

[Eamonn Sullivan]

Hi all. I'm about to tempt fate again by installed a new Wifi card on
my Warty PC. At the moment, I'm using the motherboard ethernet to a
wireless 802.11b bridge to connect to a Netgear 802.11b/g router. That
arrangement sidesteps the whole issue or hardware recognition, but it
makes it difficult to manage if I need to change any settings (like
the WEP key for example), since the PC has no idea it is on a wireless
network. A new Netgear WG311 PCI adapter has just arrived from Amazon.
Googling indicates I'll either need to use ndiswrapper or the MADwifi
or acx100 drivers (depending on the flavor). None of this, I'm
assuming, has been installed already. Is there a good step-by-step
guide for doing this on Ubuntu/Debian? I've found a few for Fedora and
Suse. Does anyone use this card?