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>I'm needing to buy a PC Card Wifi adapter for my wife's laptop and I'm
>not up on the Linux-supportedness of the makes and models one would find
>in the typical Fry's, Circuit City, Best Buy, etc.  I have a prism54
>card for my own laptop that works fairly well, but it's not my
>understanding that I can get the FooBar 65X3342 card and assume it has
>the same chipset as the FooBar 65X3342 card from two years ago.
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I would just get on ebay and buy an older one.. pretty much guranteed to 
work. I have a netgear ma401 that is pretty well supported on linux. It 
uses the orinoco chipset and those are well developed modules on linux.

>I also have that classic problem that you can't really tell from the
>shrinkwrapped box just what chipset a Wifi card has, much less whether
>or not it's Linux-usable.
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>Jeff
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