where to buy wlan card for building access point?

[alex.blackbit]

hello everybody

i want to build a a/b/g access point like discribed in gentoo-wiki with a pci card based on the intersil prism54 duette chipset, since this driver is in the kernel
now http://prism54.org/supported_cards.php tells me, that there is just one such pci card, the smc 2802w.
well, it's okay for me to use this card, since it is very cheap, but as i found out there are two revisions of this card, and just rev.1 uses this chipset, rev.2 a completely different.
i live in austria, middle europe, and here virtually all distributors are just "online shops" where i cannot just call somebody and tell him: "can you please take a look on the box and tell me if you read rev.1 or rev.2"
so, does anybody know a trusted source for such cards?
i believe somebody could have had this problem before me, since this card in the only one (at least that i know) that has a build-in kernel driver and supports a/b/g in a pci form factor
thanks in advance
alex

[yngwin]

I myself use a PCI wireless card that uses a ralink rt2500 chipset, for which open-source drivers exist, even though they are not (yet) in the kernel. Maybe they are easier to get...
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[alex.blackbit]

that's okay
thanks for the answer
but does this card support "master mode"? i believe this is what would make it be able to act as a access point
do you use it for being a client or a access point or hotspot or whatever the right word for it is?
kind regards
alex