General wireless support under Linux

Hopefully this isn't too dumb a question, but rather than buy a wireless
(802.11b) device and then see whether I can get it working with Linux, I'd
rather find out what works first of all...

So, what wireless (USB / PCI) devices are easiest to get working under
Linux, in particular Debian and Knoppix?

Thanks
Pete

Peter Smallbone wrote:

> Hopefully this isn't too dumb a question, but rather than buy a wireless
> (802.11b) device and then see whether I can get it working with Linux, I'd
> rather find out what works first of all...
>
> So, what wireless (USB / PCI) devices are easiest to get working under
> Linux, in particular Debian and Knoppix?
>
> Thanks
> Pete

My broadcom chipset (lynksys PCI 802.11g card) and realtek 8180L (802.11b)
work well with ndiswrapper (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/) and its
easy to intall