List of Mandrake Supported Wireless Cards?
 

I tried the mandrake site but their little script wasn't displaying anything under 'communication cards'. Any ideas on what wireless cards mandrake supports (hehe, has drivers written for?)

The distro you use is not important for drivers. You can find a lot of informations about wireless at http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/

In my experience stick with the older 16 bit PCMCIA wireless cards. For Linux it seems the older the hardware the better the odds that somebody wrote a driver for it and that it will work.

My laptop is an E-machines M5310 which has built in broadcomm 54g wireless but there is no free linux driver. I understand Linuxant builds a wrapper to use the windows driver but I'm not about to pay 15 dollars for a driver that should be free in the first place.

So I went with the pcmcia cards. I tried a couple but the one that I got to work with Mandrake pretty much out of the box is an AirLink+ "Wireless PCMCIA Adapter 16bit"

Model No: WLC010

This card works well enough for my own uses.