Hi,
I've got the same problem that you. I spoke with compaq support guy at the online support chat and he recommend the following driver:
http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/madwifi/madwifi-20030802.tgz
http://madwifiwiki.thewebhost.de/wiki/FrontPage
They was clear that Compaq doesn't support any problem about this drivers, but it can work. I got this one and will test tomorrow.
The adapter 1394 is you firewire port. I didn't get it working and with Debian because my laptop freeze on boot.
Regards.
Fabio
