Wireless card recommendations (Was: Linksys Wireless Card)

[bryan at redfedora.co.uk]

>> > Can anyone recommend Wireless "G" PCI cards that work
>> > easily with FC2?
>>
>> There are no "G" cards that work with "out of the box" on any "free" OS
>> at the present time. This seems to be a result of the fact that the
>> manufacturers of the chipsets are  unwilling to release the specs
>> necessary for developers to build the necessary drivers, and/or provide
>> the firmware under a licensing arrangement compatible with open-source
>> licensing.
>
> The card I have used for the past year is (now) close to an "out of the
> box" install.  It only requires you to download its firmware, all else
> is included in FC2/3.  Note that my card is PCMCIA form factor, but PCI
> should work just as easily.
>
> I am happy with the Prism54-based cards, at least for an isolated, home-
> based network.  I have used a NetGear WG511 for almost one year now.
> The latest FC2/3 kernels include the driver - all that remains is to
> download the (small) firmware from http://www.prism54.org and copy it
> to /lib/firmware (note that this directory is different in FC2).
>
> The only thing that does not yet work is advanced encryption (unless
> there have been recent advances in development).  Any of the cards
> referenced at the site above should work - just beware that several
> manufacturers seem to switch chipsets without using a new model number.

My Cisco 350 said 'hello moto' straight out of the box. Yet to test it on a 
network but all the gubbins were there to say it was working alright.