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After many tries, this works. So I thought I would post this.
Neither is this procedure minimal, nor is it elegant. But it works.
And yes, it is awesome to get a 128MB, PIII 800 Mhz work like a charm.


I used:
Debian 2.6.8-3
ndiswrapper: Install using Synaptic
wpa_supplicant: Download, build and install wpa_supplicant (version
0.5.5 works for me), the one from Synaptic didn't work very well.
Windows XP drivers for TEW 421 PC. My hardware is B1, but the latest
drivers did not work. So I used an older one. (mrv8335 works)

(1) ndiswrapper -i <path to windows driver>
(2) modprobe ndiswrapper (use ndiswrapper -l to ensure all is well)
(3) Make a wpa configuration file for your setup. My AP says WPA2-PSK,
but this setup was happy with WPA-PSK. I put this at
/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
(4) wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -D ndiswrapper -B -c
/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
(5) dhclient wlan0

Snippets from dmesg and such:
Linux version 2.6.8-3-686 (pbuilder@dl360-g3) (gcc version 3.3.5
(Debian 1:3.3.5-13)) #1 Thu Sep 7 03:38:22 UTC 2006

ndiswrapper version 1.1 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=no)
ndiswrapper: driver mrv8335 (TRENDnet,08/22/2005,3.2.1.3) loaded

wpa_supplicant v0.5.5
Copyright (c) 2003-2006, Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi> and
contributors

Sample output:
ioctl[SIOCSIWPMKSA]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such device
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software
Consortium.
All rights reserved.

Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html

sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Listening on LPF/wlan0/xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
Sending on LPF/wlan0/xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port xx
DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port xx
ip length xxx disagrees with bytes received xxx.
accepting packet with data after udp payload.
DHCPACK from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
bound to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -- renewal in 302400 seconds.