Buy a better (more Linux friendly) wireless card?

Sorry, couldn't resist. 
I had two Linksys PCMCIA cards. One worked, one didn't.
Fought for hours with the one that didn't and finally gave up and sold it to someone who needed wireless on a Windows laptop.

It's just easier to buy a card that is known to work with Linux.

I think I still have the PCMCIA card in a drawer somewhere.
I don't have a laptop any more that supports PCMCIA.

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Todd Young

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Hsu" <jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com>
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
Sent: Friday, October 2, 2009 5:31:25 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: [tclug-list] HELP!  How do I get a wireless card to work?

I have a Linksys WPC54GS v1.1, and I'm trying to install it in Ubuntu.  I have the weight of the world on my shoulders, because this is for an IEEE study group called Project Phoenix (group working on an open source blood pressure monitor), and everyone else has little or no Linux experience.

I've done Google searches on how to install this wireless card.  I go through the procedures (like ndiswrapper and bcm43xx-fwcutter, but the mumbo jumbo either don't work, or there's one little thing in them that I can't do, and I can't figure out why not.

I have used a Linksys WUSB54GC in Puppy Linux in the past, and it worked right out of the box.

What's wrong?  Where can I get a general understanding of how things work without wading through tons of mumbo jumbo?

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Jason Hsu <jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com>

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