Yes. The Netgear WG511 works very well. It is based on the Prism / Intersil chipset. When you buy the card, make sure on the box (near the barcode) it says "Made in Taiwan" and not "Made in China" though. The ones that say China use a different version of the chip. You will have to use the prism54 driver (in the kernel) and firmware from http://prism54.org. I have this card and it has been very good to me. Works with kismet too!
Another card you can look into is the D-Link DWL-650G (or something like that). Revisions A and B are the Prism chipset and Rev. C is the Atheros chipset. This is also supported, but the driver is not in the kernel- you have to CO it from CVS (madwifi it is called). Pretty much any card with a Prism chipset should work well. Prism54.org has a whole list of them. I highly recommend the WG511 one because I found it is very sensitive and very powerful; gets nice range. As a last resort option, you can always check out http://ndiswrapper.sf.net for a little program that will load into the kernel the Windows drivers for the unsupported wifi cards. This thing is free (as in speech and beer) and generally works acceptably. Only you cannot use it in Monitor mode as the Windows driver specification supports no such mode. What does lspci show for your Belkin card? Which card is it? Chances are it is based on Prism or something, and you need to install the firmware package for it... or check that your card services are working, etc. Good Luck -- Steve M On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 15:31 -0400, Gary Whitten wrote: > > Does anyone have any suggestions for a Wireless pcmcia card that can > be > reliably and > easily installed ("out of the box") in most recent Linux distros? >
