I just bought myself a shiny new wireless adapter, a 3Com OfficeConnect 802.11g
(3CRWE154G72), which I thought has native and good support under Linux through the prism54 driver. However, after fiddling a
bit around with the drivers, I came to the conclusion that 3Com has fooled their users. They changed
the chip inside the card and kept PCI and FCC ID the same: Result: The card is not supported
although it seems so in the first place. Thank you 3Com, you just lost a customer. :-(
To save other users the same disappointment, I hereby recommend: Do not
buy 3com OfficeConnect wireless cards, you have a good chance that it’s not supported although 3Com
tries to make you think that. Very bad behaviour, it’s a shame for such a big company to
let their users out in the cold. 3Com also does nothing to get their hardware
supported in free operating systems, so again: Do not buy 3Com hardware!