That's the maddening thing about a lot of these wifi adapter manufacturers, even a slight model change can mean a major chipset difference. The DWL-G520+ is totally different from the DWL-G520!
Yes, and not to mention that the DWL-520 (again, different from DWL-520+) has several hardware revisions, the first three I believe which use the prism chipset and the latest using a realtek one (which is harder to get running under linux last time I tried).
For the Linksys WMP54G, according to http://ralink.rapla.net and other pages I've visited, even different revisions of the exact same board model have totally different chipsets (4 or 5 different ones in fact!!).
Linksys really has a habit of doing that huh? Up to now I'm still feeling slightly bitter about their WMP11.
Needless to say, deciding on which 11g card to get is no picnic if you're interested in using it under Linux as well.
It isn't a wifi card...but the centrino laptops that run 802.11b and 802.11b/g use the ipw2200b and ipw2200bg drivers respectively for their Intel PRO/wireless chips. I personally use a laptop with 802.11b/g and it ran fine until I (ironically) upgraded the driver version causing it to lose the connection from time to time.
My gripe however with the ipw2x00 drivers are that they aren't supported by kismet (unlike my linksys wpc11). In fairness however, I haven't really tried yet to find a workaround.
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