I was going to suggest NDISwrapper as well, it doesn't always do the job, but most laptops i've tried it on have pretty good luck with it. I think the wireless support is pretty good, most cards will work right off the bat from install. Unfortunately, newer cards that haven't been ported over yet will always have issues. I think they do a pretty good job on wifi support, considering the majority of hardware manufacturers make the cards to just to run on windows.
Also, why are you using crappy novell linux? :-P
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