I first set up two old XP machines running with a WG511T pcmcia card and WG121 USB wireless NICs respectively.
They both immediately saw their NIC under Puppy 2.1.4 when I typed the following:
[note that I have been lazy and not included the dialogue responses]
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su
cd /mnt/hda1/'program files'/netgear/wg511scu/driver
ndiswrapper -i WGT511.inf [size=11][i][I can't remember exactly so this might not be the exact name of the inf file] [/i][/size]
ndiswrapper -l
modprobe ndiswrapper
Next, selecting automatic 'DHCP set up' gave access to the internet via my broadband connection and it was very fast too.
Feeling triumphant I tried to get my old W98 laptops working wireless with Puppy 2.1.4. by proceeding as above.
However, this time, when I tried to run 'ndiswrapper -i wg511.inf' I got a error message:
'invalid driver, check that Prism.sys is present' [or something like this].
Runnig ndiswrapper -l gave another invalid driver message and nothing I tried beyong this got the wirless to work.
Any ideas?