I have an Edimax card that uses the Ralink RT2500 chipset.  It works  
fine under Ubuntu Dapper in my toshiba laptop.
Jim
On 4 Nov 2007, at 19:33, Russell Gadd wrote:
> I shortly expect to have an old Windows 98 PC which is being given  
> away (don't know the precise spec at present) and I thought of  
> putting in a wireless PCI card to connect to our 80211g wireless  
> router and installing Ubuntu to use it for web surfing. Could  
> someone suggest a suitable card or card family or let me know how I  
> can check the spec of a card so it will work with Linux? I might  
> buy something from Ebay. Thanks.
>
> Russell Gadd
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