i picked up a n older dell c-840 laptop dirt cheap on ebay. the hard drive i am using used to have xp home on it in an old compaq. i have installed freespire on it and after a little research i have found that madwifi should work for my belkin f5d7010 ver. 5100 wireless notebook card. the computer is a Dell latitude c-840 with a p4m at 1.6 ghz.
i have tried several times to download madwifi but when i go to unzip it it says it cant be saved on the drive.
this is the first time i have attempted linux. any help would be appreciated as i really have no clue how to go forward with it.