Wireless in linux the same topic as always

I have a Linksys WUSB11 v1.1 802.11b adapter that I have been using to connect a main (win98) computer to a secondary (winME) computer. I had figured if I could get wireless up on my Linux Box, I could scrap the secondary computer for parts. Well, that part has proved slightly difficult.

The card (FCC ID: PKW-WUSB11, so you can search and get pictures) appears to be an atmel chipset. I have tried Ndiswrapper, and it did not work. After giving up for a while, I looked again. After looking through a few cross-referencing pages from way earlier this millenium, I found that this was an atmel, and that there were two big drivers for it (Berlios and Sourceforge.) I looked at Berlios, and it's driver was for 2.4.x, but their snapshots (that don't exist anymore) would support 2.6.x. Looking at Sourceforge, I tried one version earlier than the latest, which had wayy too many make errors, and the latest. As I built it, I got two lvalue errors (c++ newbie), so I commented out that subroutines. There were two opportunities (debug and release) to build .o and .ko files, and only debug had the errors. after it made, and I installed it as per instructions, I ran lvnet (their net-watching program), and it said it found no atmel cards.

I looked again for drivers, and found one off of Tuxmobil, whose webmaster forgot to pay dues or something.

I'm on an FC4 box, I'm using an access point, and under hardware browser, the adapter is listed under "System Devices", and has an unknown driver. Any help would be appreciated in setting the linux box up for wifi, poly-p man