I bought an X-Micro USB 802.11b stick on Tuesday, to attach my 2nd desktop PC, an old Compaq Deskpro, to my wireless network.  I'd originally wanted to use the PCI card which I pulled out of my main desktop PC after installing my wireless router (to which the main box is now hard-wired) - but the Compaq is too old to support it.



I was slightly apprehensive about getting the USB stick to work under Linux, which (as usual) is not officially supported - but the driver (which I had to download from the net - it wasn't supplied with the product) compiled cleanly with one tiny modification to the source, and after half an hour of tinkering with config files and startup scripts, it's now running happily under Slackware 9.1, so big smiles all round.  It only connects at 11Mbps (my other wireless-attached PCs have 54Mbps interfaces) but it was cheap and it seems to work very well.  A very neat solution.