need linux compatible wireless pci adapter

[emltwnty2]

i just installed linux feddorra into my system and found out that my airlink pci adapter does not support linux. I looked around fry's to see if they had a linux compatible wireless pci card, but had no luck. One would think there would be at least somebody making a linux compatible wireless adapter somewhere... If anybody could tell me a place that sells a wireless G pci card that is linux compatible that would be a great help.. thnx

 

[Giantwasp]

First find out what chipset the wireless card is. You may found that althouh airlink don't support it the chipset is supported. For example my asus motherboard came with a pci wireless card that has a ralink rt500 chipset which has an open source drivers. http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
You may even find that your airlink card has the same chipset http://ralink.rapla.net/

Once you have confirmed the chipset is not supported you can try ndiswrapper which will wrap the windows driver

 

[pikachu656]

You may want to check out Linksys. Alot of their network cards has drivers for Linux. Although I am not too sure if they provide tech support for Linux.