Dell D800 and wireless ethernet card

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

I just got myself a Dell D800 laptop.  Really it is woking rather well - 
one of the hard parts was the video card, because the nvidia driver 
would just cause the computer to completely freeze.  But googling "Linux 
1680x1050" gave me some appropriate ModeLine so that the nv driver now 
works.

But I digress.  This laptop comes with a Dell WLAN 1350 wireless 
ethernet card.  I was able to get a driver by using the Windows driver 
with ndis, and this does indeed work.  (I did have to surpress -Werror 
in compiling the kernel.)

My problem is how to control this ethernet card.  For example, the wi 
dirver comes with wicontrol.  In particular, I did get the ethernet card 
to connect to a wireless hub (indeed dhclient ndis0 succeeded 
admirably).  But I couldn't figure out how to disconnect the ethernet 
card without rebooting the computer.

Perhaps ndis is still in its early development, and I just need to wait 
for a "ndiscontrol" function or such like to come along.  Or is there 
some other way?

Thanks, Stephen