Getting Linux to play nice with wireless USB network cards

As a reminder to self, and to pass along helpful information for any other fellow 'nux n00b who are trying to get their Linux boxes to run nicely with USB Wireless-G adapters, here are some great resources for setting up the WLAN NICs:

• Linux Wireless LAN support database
  
• ndiswrapper, and its installation WIki
  
• Linuxant DriverLoader for NDIS Linux drivers
  

Have fun! Right now, ma Penguin Playpen is running SimplyMEPIS 3.4.2-RC1 on an old generic box: AMD Athlon XP 2000+ w/ CoolerMaster Aero HSF, ASUS A7N8X Deluxe, 2 x 512MB DDR PC3200 SDRAM, IBM ATA66 20GB HDD, Yamaha CDRW, and a SMC EZ Connect 2862W-G 802.11g USB2.0 NIC (connected using ndiswrapper, used iwconfig to setup WEP... will try WPA another day).

P.S. I've tried a Hawking Tech HWU54G v2, Gigafast WF748-CUI (both are running Zydas ZD1211 chipsets, and I'll probably have to try find some time to get the ZD1211 'nux driver compiled and working first) and a Netgear WG111v2 (uses some Conexant chipset... worked with ndiswrapper, but connection was not stable with WEP/WPA security turned on... so I returned it).