I finally got a wireless card to work in my thinkpad running Debian.
After trying to find a card that used the prism chipset, I gave up and
decided to use ndiswrapper.  The third card I tried, a netgear wg511,
actually works.  Now my next problem is that since this card actually
has the prism chipset (which does not work with the prism54.org
drivers because of the softmac chipset,
http://www.prism54.org/supported_cards.php) my hoptplug setup loads
the prism54 drivers on insert.  (I had to upgrade to 2.6.x to get my
cardbus bridge to work).

Right now I just
$ modprobe -r prism54
$ modprobe ndiswrapper
to get it to work, but I'd like the correct driver to load the first time.

I have been unable to figure out if there is a way to easily change
what hotplug loads.  Anyone have any advice?

-- 
George Fischer
Minneapolis