A Couple of weeks ago, I had a MA111 and went struggling around in Linux, http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ighlight=ma111

so I went out to Microcenter and bought Hawking's HWP54G wireless card, which I figured that Linux might have had more support for, because it is PCI, and not USB.
Well, I started in my "friendly" Windows and set it up there......the on-cd win drivers made it too easy. I surfed for a quick bit and then went to configure it in Linux.
As I got into Red Hat Linux 9, it of course did not recognize anything new during boot up. So I went into the networking Conifg GUI. Nothing similar was available in the device list, so I toyed around a little, but got no where...HELP?

I believe this is a Prism54 based wireless card. The driver for this was placed in the 2.6.7 and 2.4.28 kernel. Redhat 9 does not run a kernel this recent. If you want it to run out of the box you either need to patch your kernel or upgrade to a newer kernel or see if someone has made a Redhat 9 prism54 rpm or upgrade to Fedora 2-3. It should work out of the box with Fedora2-3

Edit : May also be a TI acx111 chipset
See next post

I did a little looking around and found some posts that suggested that Hawking changed the chipset on the HPW54G. Older ones are the prism54 chipset and newer ones are the TI acx111. The prism54 ones should run out of the box on the newer kernels I listed above. If it is an acx111 you will need to use NDISwrapper (Ndiswrapper howto and download link )

To figure out which chipset you ended up with run "lspci" as root.

I ran lspci under RH9 and found my HWP54G had a Ralink RT2500 chipset.