Hi everyone,

I have a collegue at work who recently had his laptop upgraded - the new model has an Intel IPW2200 wireless chipset. He configured a dual-boot system on it, and Fedora Core 3 picked the card up with no problems.

I was totally amazed - here is a wireless NIC chipset that supports 802.11g, natively supported in Linux and works "out-of-the-box"!

However, trying to find an NIC based on this chipset is impossible (well not quite, see below), it only seems to be shipped built in to new laptops. As I am trying to find a card for my desktop, this is no good! Originally I thought there may be a PCI NIC with this chipset, but no. Then I thought there might be a PCMCIA card with this chipset, and I could use an adaptor of some kind with my desktop, but no. I had almost given up hope, but then I found this site:

http://www.passys.nl/tips/tip40_en.htm

This seems almost too good to be true - has anybody bought one of these cards? Or is it unlikely something like this would work? IMO, I see no reason why it shouldn't, but I suppose it depends on who put it together!

If not, can anybody help me find a card based on this chipset, or suggest an alternative?

Thank you all in advance

Pete