FYI regarding wireless networking, this is from the prism54 list.

My advice to anyone buying a wireless networking device for Linux: be 
sure that the vendor has an acceptable return policy.
-- 
-Eric 'shubes'
"There is no such thing as the People;
  it is a collectivist myth.
  There are only individual citizens
  with individual wills
  and individual purposes."
-William E. Simon (1927-2000),
     Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977)
  "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237