Wireless Card Woes

[JinTexas]

Hi all,
I have read every thread I can find on the steps to installing a wireless network card in a laptop but none seems to fit my situation. I have installed Debian release 2.6.22-22-686 on a Compaq Evo N600c. I found a Dynex DX-WGNBC wireless card at Best Buy on clearance and plugged it in hoping it would be recognized and installed "automatically". No luck! Here is the output from lspci:

04:00.0 Ethernet Controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR50056 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)

The output from iwconfig:
lo no wireless extensions
eth0 no wireless extensions

I'm lost as to where to go from here. I would really appreciate any help!!
Thanks
Jay

[RobinVossen]

You might want to look into ndiswrapper..

Just get the windows Drivers.
Wrap them with ndiswrapper.
modprobe ndiswrapper
Setup network
connect.

Done

[valemon]

You 'd better check madwifi which specializes in atheros chips.

[JinTexas]

Madwifi did the trick! I have my new card set up and working great! Thanks for the help!!