I have purchased a wireless access point from Linksys, a WAP54G, a great product with a lot a features, but if you replace the internal linux based firmware with other availables on the net you can add a lot of more features.

I configured my Windows/Linux laptop to use the wireless integrated card, and I must tell you that making Windows use a WPA based 802.11g network was not as easy as I thought, the laptop accessed the network inmediatly when no encryption was activated, but I needed around 3 hours to make it access the net with WPA encryption, but that is another history, I will write here what I made on my Fedora Core laptop to make it work in wireless mode.

The laptop is an IBM Thinkpad R50p with an Atheros chipset based WiFi miniPCI card. I choosed this one because I previously knew about the good support that the card provided for Linux.

The installation instructions has been moved to the wiki page named "Installing Madwifi on Fedora Core with WPA"