Wireless sources?

[Don Russell]

Are there any wireless PC Cards (for laptops), preferably 54g cards that 
have Linux drivers? Everything I find refers to using Windows drivers 
with ndiswrapper or similar. I already have a Linksys WPC54g card I 
can't get working, so...

I bought a Linksys WPC11 card because it has native Linux drivers for 
it. (I really want a 54g card, but at least the WPC11 card has Linux 
drivers from Linksys)

HOWEVER, when I got the darn thing home and opened it, there was an 
explanation saying "The WPC11 Ver 4 card is a high performance wireless 
card and therefore would not work with Windows NT..." (and other stuff).

(Well, I had to laugh at the wording.. but that's another story)

Unfortunately the WPC11 Ver 4 does *not* have Linux drivers like the 
WPC11 ver 3 card.

The good news is there was an addendum packaged with the card that 
explained the ver4 card could be exchanged for a ver3 card and all would 
be well.

The phone number they gave was for "customer service"... but they knew 
NOTHING about being able to exchange the card and after many phone calls 
and many e-mails, I finally just returned the card to the store and got 
my money back. (I'd have exchanged it at the store, but the store only 
had ver 4 cards)

Anyway...

I'm really not up to installing the ndiswrapper stuff, and from I can 
tell that requires kernel source updates... I don't want to patch the 
kernel every time there's an update. Fedora has a very short release 
cycle, I don't want to be doing that sort of thing every few months. 
More frequently actually, because the kernel gets periodic updates 
between Fedora releases too.

Also, I don't want to support the ndiswrapper concept... if I wanted to 
run Windows software, that's what I'd run.... and as long as the 
manufactures of these cards know their Windows drivers can  be used on 
Linux, why should they release Linux drivers?

I encourage ndiswrapper users to contact the customer support people for 
their wireless cards card and ask about Linux drivers.... MAYBE if 
enough people ask, they'll do it.

Thanks,
Don