Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

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Hello,

  In my attempts at replacing Windows on my Dell M6400 laptop
  with -14-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso, I have gotten as far as
  being able to create a live usb stick.  My next step is to get
  on the internet via the Dell Wireless 1510 Wireless-N WLAN
  Mini-Card  and my "WPA" network.

  Broadcom offers sources and a library at: 
  http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/hybrid-portsrc_x86_64-v5_100_82_38.tar.gz
  (via http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php ).

  I did make on a machine with Linux 2.6.28-18-generic
  #60-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 12 04:26:47 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux:

      ~/tmp/broadcom$ make
      KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd`
      make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.28-18-generic'
        LD      /h/sgovinda/tmp/broadcom/built-in.o
        CC [M]  /h/sgovinda/tmp/broadcom/src/shared/linux_osl.o
        CC [M]  /h/sgovinda/tmp/broadcom/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.o
        CC [M]  /h/sgovinda/tmp/broadcom/src/wl/sys/wl_iw.o
        LD [M]  /h/sgovinda/tmp/broadcom/wl.o
        Building modules, stage 2.
        MODPOST 1 modules
      WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in /h/sgovinda/tmp/broadcom/wl.o
      see include/linux/module.h for more information
        CC      /h/sgovinda/tmp/broadcom/wl.mod.o
        LD [M]  /h/sgovinda/tmp/broadcom/wl.ko
      make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.28-18-generic'
      ~/tmp/broadcom$

  The action for "make install" is:

    install -D -m 755 wl.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/wl.ko

  which, I _guess_, is just copying wl.ko and doing a "chmod 755 /<path>/wl.ko".

  Key requirement:  The wireless card works with Win XP and I do
                    _not_ want any firmware changes to happen to it! 
  
  Questions:  
  
  1) Will copying wl.ko to the corresponding directory on the
     Live USB be OK (since the build happened on Ubuntu
     2.6.28-18-generic)?  
  
  2) If copying is OK and if copying and use with or without
     rebooting will _not_ make any changes to the wireless
     card's firmware, what do I do next to get on the WPA
     network and then to the internet?

  Thanks,

  --Suresh

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