Networking :: Wireless with Compaq R4000

I'm a newbie when it comes to installing Linux. I was able to get it mostly working off of my USB card, but I still have a pretty big issue - wireless (or even wired) access.

I have a Compaq R4000 laptop which has a Broadcom wireless built in. Reading around a bit it looks like I might have to use ndisWrapper. That leaves me with a number of questions...

1) Does anyone have a newbie instructions for setting up ndisWrapper? I have Windows XP when I don't boot off of the DSL USB, so I can download anything from there. I (obviously) can't download anything from within Linux.

I think this is going to be fairly complex, but I really want to give desktop Linux a try.

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