Dell Wireless 1350 WLAN PC Card (PCMCIA)

[dmlayton]

I saw several similar post and thus gathered that I should use ndiswrapper.
ndiswrapper -i /mnt/cdrom/Setup/AR/bcmwl5a.inf went fine
ndiswrapper -l suggests that the hardware is present
modprobe ndiswrapper seems to have gone okay
dmesg shows that modprobe went okay
However iwconfig does not show a wlan0 entry.
I do, however, see a sit0. What is sit0? Why do I not show wlan0? What do I do from here
to get my wirekess up and running?

Please be explicit; I am a newbie. Thanks in advance

[lakerdonald]

okay,
how many NIC's do you have?
and what does ifconfig -a return?

[dmlayton]

Network Interface Cards? Just the integrated lan and modem and the pcmcia that I am trying to configure (I am using a Dell Inspiron 1000).
ifconfig -a gives:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:43:44:A1:08
inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::211:43ff:fe44:a108/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:938 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:929 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:843158 (823.3 Kb) TX bytes:156097 (152.4 Kb)
Interrupt:19 Base address:0x1800

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:70 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:70 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4594 (4.4 Kb) TX bytes:4594 (4.4 Kb)

sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)