wireless cards & Linux

[david]

On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 16:00, nocturn wrote:
> david Wrote: 
> > Greetings
> > 
> > I'm working on a project to roll Linux out across the
> > NGO/Charity/Voluntary sector and I have 2 offices waiting to be set up
> > with wireless. They are using Mandrake 10 at the moment.
> > After having gone through US Robotics cards and D-Link DWL-122 with
> > absolutely NO luck at all, I'm starting to wonder...
> > So,
> > does anyone know if there's currently such a thing as a "works out of
> > the box" wireless card (PCI or USB) for Linux? 
> > This would primarily be for Mandrake boxes - however, if there's a
> > better solution via Ubuntu - I'd be willing to consider it, but the
> > solution must be utterly reliable and must also involve no beta OS's.
> > (Mdk 10.2 Beta 2 sees and correctly identifies the d-link cards but
> > doesn't seem able to use them - "no wireless extensions".)
> > 
> > many thanks
> > 
> > David
> > 
> > 
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> 
> Basicly, all cards with a prism 54 chipset are supported by the
> kernel.
> My SMC 54Mbit card was detected by Ubuntu at install time, so I'm
> happy.
> 
> For other cards, you may require ndiswrapper to load the Windows
> drivers.
> 

Many thanks for that.
I found this site as a result.
http://prism54.org/supported_cards.php

I'll see what can be ordered tomorrow.

David