I am currently still using R5A16, but will likely upgrade soon. I have a frontend for my wife which is a laptop (thinkpad) in the bedroom, and it connects via wired ethernet.

I have a wireless-b network at home, and I'm going to be buying a wireless-g router soon, so I'm thinking about upgrading my wife's frontend to wireless at the same time by getting her a PCMCIA Wireless-G card for her laptop. I see that Prism-based cards need a bit of 'help' to get working (which I'm fine with), but that leaves me with a few questions:

1) are there other pcmcia-wireless-g chipsets that are simpler to set up, or better for some other reason?
2) either way, can anyone make a recommendation to a particular model card?
3) has anyone implemented security over such a wireless connection? Is WPA2 supported?

Thanx.

IF you can find an orinoco card that would be your best bet for native support. Right now i'm messing around with a broadcomm chipset card. Aparently the drivers that where patched into the kernel are causing some issues.

My D-Link DWL-G510 works pretty well using the madwifi driver, which is included.

R5B7 includes a configuration option for this wireless card, but it seems to only work the first time. I had to manually edit the /etc/networking/interfaces file to make it work permanently. I think I threw a howto on it in the proper forum...