[Sussex] Advice on pcmcia wireless card please

[Philip G]

Please note I have posted a duplicate of the following on the Brighton linux 
users group as well.  Also appologies if you receive this twice.


Hello all.

I'm in a bit of a pickle as I urgently need a perfectly / fully working pcmcia 
wireless card but don't know which one to buy, or where I can buy it.  I am 
assuming a prism 2.5 based one but which make and model can be garanteed to 
be this chipset; if in deed this will fulfill the following criteria:-

-- must work completely with kismet, including signal strength readings
-- must work with network manager; as many of you know a few cards drivers are 
not nm happy yet.
-- must survive suspend resume.
-- must have open source driver.
-- Ideally work with a range of kernels but most importantly with more current 
ones, ie Gutsy Gibbon (currently at 2.6.22 plus).
-- Ideally have the facility to plug in an external aerial.
-- ideally 802.11g capable or better.

Thanks.


I am also in the position to advise windows users which wireless divices they 
should buy, these will probably be mainly usb for desktop machines to access 
a community shared wireless internet access system.  As I would like their 
way to linux to be as smooth as possible it would be nice if I had advised 
them / supplied them with ones that would actually work if they get around to 
trying linux out, rather than my previous advise / supplies causing a show 
stopper on their linux potential.  These cards would simply have to get them 
on the network, nothing fancy, though an external aerial to aid reception 
might be required in some settings.

Thank you all for your time and expertise, any comments what so ever would be 
greatly appreciated, my experience with linux (my sole OS for a good number 
of years) wireless drivers has been frustrating.

Thanks again