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One laptop has an elderly Lucent Orinoco, which has kernel support (comes up as eth1 on bootup), the other uses an Atheros chipset based D-Link 802.11g card which is autodetected under Ubuntu as ath0.
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Bah - no sooner had I written this than my missus knocked the laptop off the sofa, breaking the Orinoco. No problem, I'll get the D-Link out of the other laptop and buy another D-Link when I've got some cash, then I'll just be a new ADSL modem/router/wireless point away from 802.11g throughout the house (I'm completely wireless apart from my server).
Bit of a problem getting it working on the old 2.4 kernel based Debian system - kernel recompile to add crypto support, compile a kernel module, sort out a startup script for the interface, sort out a kernel freeze when it found that there are five wireless points around here (most with no security :P ). Up and running now, but it shows how far Linux has moved in the two years since I installed Debian on that box - your average user wouldn't have been able to do that. As I said before, Ubuntu works out of the box with that card, no messing, and I'd expect any modern distro to be the same. XP of course is now four years old - Linux's improvement in that time has been stratospheric in comparison, and is of course free.