First, a prelude to my question: I'm in the process of acquiring an old subnotebook - an IBM thinkpad 240. We're talking limited hardware -- Celeron 300, max 192 meg ram, external floppy, no cdrom (and it can't boot from a USB cdrom!). My theory is that Vector is the best distro for this machine, because if I can get the iso onto the windows partition I can then install it from there -- not to mention the fact that Vector is fast & small.
Now, the question: does anyone know of a PCMCIA/cardbus adapter which will be configured automatically (or as close to it as possible) by Vector's initial install? I need to buy a wireless adapter for it, and I'd rather have one that works out of the box (I've had _bad_ experiences with wireless on other distros!). It would be a big plus is it supported WPA well... I've looked at lists of wireless adapters compatible with linux in general, of course, but just because a driver exists doesn't mean that it's configured right by a particular distro...
thanks for reading!