I've been searching threads and Googling about, but can anyone recommend a wireless card for a notebook (pcmcia) that is supported natively in Fedora? I have a Compaq 2585US running FC 4 and it has a broadcom card built in. So you can imagine the fun I had with that. I got it up and running with ndiswrapper, but it got to be a pain to maintain and I had problems when I tried connecting to other access points. I can always get it to work, but it gets old when I have 5 minutes to check the email and I spend 4 minutes bringing the connection up.

With Fedora 5 coming out in March I plan on wiping my system and doing a fresh install. This could be a good time to pop a new wireless card in and have it "just work." Any recommendations for a new card would be appreciated.

I'm also going to give the open-source broadcom driver a shot...see what happens
http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/

All prism2 cards should be easily supported, as well as those based on cisco aironet and orinoco chipsets.

Thanks Matir, you've given me a few options to look for!

Let me clarify my post slightly if anyone else has ideas. I need the card to be 802.11g compatible and load natively in Fedora. If you have a product recommendation that you know works, that would be perfect. I also don't want to have to deal with madwifi or ndiswrapper because those get to be a pain when you upgrade the kernel. Plus I can get those to work with my current card, I just want to avoid the headache altogether.

And I am aware that what I want is more or less the holy grail of wifi cards.

:-)

I think, though I've never used it, the chipset called "prism54" is supposedly well supported.

I have toshiba satellite pro 6100 nd fc4 my prsm card is properly installed by fc4 automatically plus I m usin it 2 connect 2 home wireless coneection nd It works gr8 faster dan windows