Intel 2200 B/G Help

[Fork]

Okay, at the beginning I'm a total Linux noob who just installed mandriva to see what it was all about I'm willing to learn... but to do that I sorta need to be connected to the internet in Linux, and I don't know how to do that (well, at least with a wireless card). I was told when I downloaded it, that Mandriva had support right off the disk for the whole Centrino package, but when I installed it it said I needed more stuff.
Let me start off:
Mandriva Linux 2006
Intel 2200 B/G Wireless card
Inspiron 9300

Okay. It told me right after I was done installing to head over to <a href="ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php"> this website </a> to get my card to work. I downloaded the stuff in Windows, and then booted up Mandriva, and opened it. I'm not sure what it was, but it said it was read only, and was like a box with a list of files.

So, I'm sorta stuck. I really would like to learn how to use Linux, but unless I can get connected to the internet... I'm not sure what to do.

Any help would be extremely appreciated!!!

[AlexK]

I am assuming your windows partition would be ntfs, so when you copy over something to linux, it would appear as read-only. To change this, launch a terminal as normal user and type this:

chmod 777 the_file.whatever_extension

chmod is a command which can change the RWX (read, write, execute) permissions of a file. The 1st number stands for the permission for owner, 2nd number for group and 3rd number for others.
7 = full RWX permission
6 = Read, Write permission
4 = Read
2 = Write
1 = Execute
0 = No permission.

now just look for a readme file of sorts and open it and follow the instructions there.