Learning Process with the BJs

The BJs had a problem the other day with their old Dell laptop that is running Mint 7 XFCE. One thing lacking with their Dell is a build in wireless card so they were using a USB wireless card. The problem started when they broke the USB wireless card, I helped them get a new card using Craigslist the price was almost free for an unopened box. What they now have is a Belkin F5D8010 PC card. I was not close by when they got the card but figured I could talk them through the setup with no problem. As it turned out they could not get it to work and so I figured it need the driver installed logging into WizHelp I soon had control of the computer and installed the driver still no luck.  We talked things over and I asked are you sure the card is all the way in? The answer was "oh yes".  Final we just had to wait until I could join up with the computer, at that time a glaring problem became obvious to me. The card was in upside down.  After inserting the card correctly I had to make a change in the WICD settings changing wlan0 to wlan2.  Unfortunately I have since learned it will not connect to a network that uses WPA.  That is something I will have to look into later.