> Sadly, the wireless situation in Linux is quite a mess.
>
> florin

Yes. Hardware vendors are getting less and less interested in non Windows 
platforms.

Some good resources for wifi hardware:
http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/net/wireless/cards.html
http://www.vendorwatch.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

Lets not forget about OpenBSD's efforts for expanding openess among hardware 
vendors:
http://kerneltrap.org/node/6550
http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#39