No, I am not a Nun in training, the other type of novice.
Any Slackware users?
I am a novice to the operating system.
What I currently have is two dual boot systems (a notebook and a desktop) both running XP and Slack.
On both systems I almost went nuts trying to get wireless cards to work.
Found Slackware did not play well with the Broadcom card in the notebook luckily after some research I found a Slackbuilds script (or whatever the tech term is) that solved the problem (yes, I know I could have just replaced the card but what fun would that have been?).
The desktop posed another issue. It is one that I put together from salvaged parts with dreams of using it as a server for file storage. Still need to research networking.
Anyway I bought a cheap NetGear card and found Slackware did not have native drivers. So a little more research. Ended up installing ndiswrapper and the .INF and .SYS files from the windows installation program. Still would not load on boot even after running ndiswrapper -m finally someone on the LinuxQuestions site solved my problem. I needed to put the line /sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules.local and everything worked fine.