Chipheads,
After many failures trying to install PCI wireless cards in MEPIS I finally found a card which is truly plug and play. I installed this card and restarted MEPIS 3.4-3 final and it was recognized and all I did was (in MEPIS OS Center) stop and then start wlan0 and I was on the Internet!!!
The magic card is :
Hawking wireless-G PCI card (HWP54G).
I hope you do as well.
Luck,
Vince

I can never recommend a card that is sold with the same model number, but with can come different chipsets. When buying one of these cards, you are taking a crapshoot on what chipset you get. Why can't the vendor put a -XX to indicate the chipset? Stupid vendors.

Early versions of this card were sold with the Prism GT chipset which is well supported on Linux. Another version uses the rt2x00 driver which is also well supported on Linux. Unfortunately mine was the TI ACX 111 chipset. Supported on Linux, but the vendor (Texas Instruments) is very closed about the chipset so the drivers were produced by reverse engineering. They do work, but there is currently (as of 10 Feb 07) no support for WPA or WPA2, and there may never be because of TIs refusal to support the open source community.

Don't take a chance buying this card. You don't know which one you will get. Also, don't buy anything from Texas Instruments.

i have this card and have mandriva 2007 official installed. Where can i find theese native drivers or even better a guide on installing this correctly?