I was looking for a USB wireless adapter that would be compatible with Fedora Core 9. It is for an old laptop that I would like to connect to my home network. I was hoping for something inexpensive, and I really don't have any experience with wireless networking + linux. I was hoping that linux drivers would be available or the adapter could use a generic driver. Is there something on this list that would be adequate?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...1&name=USB+2.0

Don't you have a PCMCIA slot on your laptop ? there are Inexpensive ($25.00) PCMCIA Wireless cards that are Well supported in Linux.. This one for instance uses the rt2500 Open Source Driver. Drop dead simple to get working in under 5 minutes.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833320105

LinuxQuestions HCL entry

USB is a terrible interface for wireless, it ups the difficulty level of getting wireless working at all, decreases the range of communication with it's weaker transmitter / receiver.

USB adapters are an all around bad choice for Wireless imho..

if it's your only option, try searching the HCL on this site..

Yeah the laptop is older, a 1GHz P3, and it does have a PCMCIA slot, 2 actually, but I haven't figured out if the slot is bad, or if the Wireless PCMCIA card that came with it was bad. (The laptops LCD is busted, trying to jury-rig this with my HDTV as a simple web/file server) If there was a definitive way to figure out if the slot is bad or just the card is bad let me know. The card's power light doesn't light up at all and there is no connectivity at all. I don't have any experience with wireless usb adapters , it definitely isn't my first option. Any help is much appreciated.