It probally breaks the mintWIFI installation since ndiswrapper is a dependency.
I'll check into this,
I have a Dell Laptop with a Dell Wireless 802.11 b/g PCmcia Card
It is a Dell Wireless 1350 WLAN, Model WL-611GW and uses the BCM43XX chipset.
Background:
First by wireless driver is supported by the kernel. The problem is that Dell decided to make their PCMCIA wireless card use the bcm43xx chipset but also included some other stuff in there to make it non standard.
Uninstall and prepare for compiling
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sudo rmmod ndiswrapper
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get remove ndiswrapper-utils
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-'uname -r'
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sudo echo "blacklist bcm43xx" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
#Download ndiswrapper from souceforge and the driver from Dell
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wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.37.tar.gz
tar -xzvf ndiswrapper-1.37.tar.gz
wget http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R140747.EXE
unzip -a R140747.EXE
Do the following many times, and manually "sudo rm -R" the directory's that list
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sudo make uninstall
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sudo make
sudo make install
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cd /DRIVER
sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
sudo ndiswrapper -l
sudo ndiswrapper -m
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
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sudo iwlist scanning