[newbie] installation

[Tony]

newbie to mandrake (72 year old living on yacht in Caribbean, computers
since 64k, no hard drive, Basic o/s days)
on trying install of 70-2 iso downloaded yesterday failure occurs with
message "failed pcmcia core", since the only such device is the wireless
card which connects me to the ISP server ashore I presume that support for
this is absent, device FIC ident reads NZO-ALPHALAN 2000   any ideas as to
solution?
Tony