I may buy this wireless NIC for my Linux desktop. It doesn't say it Linux friendly but that it would work with almost every Win OS out there. Will this work with a 2.6.x kernel?


TRENDNET TEW-423PI Wireless 802.11g PCI Card for Desktops

http://3btech.net/trtewo80pcic.html

I personally like LinkSys products, especially since Cisco bought them.
If you get an Atheros 5212 chipset you can use the native madwifi
drivers, rather than a Windoze driver with ndiswrapper.

Jean Tourrilhes is the acknowledged Linux expert on wireless, and Jeremy
even interviewed him. I'd check his website for hardware compatibility
before I bought it.

Also, I have a friend who works with IBM who's got some good docs
on wireless and Slackware...even has some Slackpacks, and also the
necessary stuff to build your own Slackpackages. In fact, I just installed
a 2.6.12.2 kernel on my lappy and built a new madwifi package for use
with my Atheros 5212 mini-PCI NIC. Check here and look at not only
the /slackware directory, but also the /rc_scripts directory. He's got docs
for several cards, using madwifi and ndiswrapper.

chinaman, your friend's site is a great resource. thanks for posting.