Apparently, there are 2 versions of this card, one that uses the Marvell W8300 chipset, and the other uses the Atheros chipset. I have the one that uses the Atheros chipset.
There were a few problems at first, but only because I chose to use ndiswrapper at first. If you have this card with this chipset, DONT USE NDIS WRAPPER. everytime you modprobe ndiswrapper, everything locked up.
Instead, use the Madwifi driver. I couldn't find the rpm for my kernel version, so i just compiled it...but...to compile it, i needed to install sharutils first (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/sharutils/...-4.3.78.tar.gz)
but remember not to use the graphical net utility to ACTIVATE the card (kernel crashed) instead, use this only to edit essid (ssid) and ip information. (use "ifconfig ath0" to activate the card)
One odd thing i noticed is that my wrt54g kept giving out the same ip address to both my main computer and this linux computer, which would bring down the network completely. I had to bring down the wireless card on the linux computer (ifconfig ath0 down), the reboot my router, and change my primary computer's ip to static. Then i brought back up my wireless card on the linux computer, and changed it to static also.
I still have not tested WEP and WPA, because it'll probably take another hour or so...I am not quite a linux junkie yet.
Overall, I am happy with the card and the driver, although, it takes a few seconds to load sites. When pinging sites like google, it would take about 3 seconds to find the IP of google.com (but pinging would be fine) You'd think it would be some dns problem somewhere along the way, but my main computer does not have a problem with this. Might just be the router...no idea, as long as it works.
PS. Card was 20 US Dollars after mail in rebate (Best Buy)
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