I don't really know of any that just works out of the box for any distribution, but that's just my experience and I've only been using Linux for a couple years. I'm wrong more than I'm right.

I have a Dynex wireless PCI card from Best Buy, which was only like $35. It's an Atheros card, getting it to work on my FC5 box was a little sketchy but I was willing to make that trade-off. The documentation for the madwifi drivers is pretty good so I'm sure you could make it work. 

Not sure if that's worth anything or not, just my $.02.

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From: Steven White <swhite at ci.bloomington.mn.us> 

> Greetings from a lurker. 
> 
> I have a desktop computer (built myself totally from parts on sale 
> after rebate) on the second floor of our house, running SUSE 10.1, and I 
> would like to get it to connect to the Qwest Actiontec DSL modem which 
> has wireless capability, so I don't have to run a cable down the stairs 
> if I want to use the internet. I know that the wireless function works 
> because my spouse uses her office laptop with wireless. I know that the 
> WIRED connection to the Linux desktop works because I actually have run 
> a cable down the stairs to the modem to test. 
> 
> I don't have enough money in my personal toy budget to keep buying 
> wireless PCI network cards and trying them until I find one that works. 
> I did that once (an off-brand wireless network card on sale after 
> rebate) and I could not make it work. I have looked at the hardware 
> compatibility list on the opensuse.org web site, and all the network 
> cards mentioned (there are not many) seem to have some "gotcha," like 
> needing a driver from somewhere, needing ndiswrapper, etc. I would like 
> to find something that just works. 
> 
> So to the question, does anyone know of a specific brand and model of 
> PCI wireless network card that I could put in my computer, that would 
> work "out of the box"? 
> 
> Thank you. 
> 
> 
> Steven White 
> City of Bloomington 
> 1800 W Old Shakopee Rd 
> Bloomington MN 55431-3096 
> USA 
> 952-563-4882 (voice) 
> 952-563-4672 (fax) 
> steven.white at ci.bloomington.mn.us 
> 
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