Wireless on linux can either e really easy, or a real big pain.

All my experiences have also been with PCMCIA cards, the chipset is they key. I had 2 linksys WPC11 cards, look the same, act the same, except one (ver3) was using the prism2 chipset, and the newer (ver4) cards now use a Realtek chipset that I can't seem to get working in any flavor of unix.

Regardless, start a new thread when you try to get that wireless working. I'll add whatever help I can.