Using WLAN with Gentoo Linux

Ciao,

Instead of filling my home with wires I'm thinking of going wireless
even though I currently only have one Desktop PC. I am connected to the
net with a cable modem at the moment and that modem is in the opposite
corner of the apartment so I have a long cable running through the whole
place lying on the floor and I would like to get rid of that and also
experiment a bit with WLAN in order to get some experience.

A friend of mine which is a long time experienced Linux user has not yet
decided upon what equipment to buy but he has read what is available at
"http://www.linux-wlan.org" and is still a bit confused of what to get.
He is going to use one PC as the "access point" and a laptop as
wireless, I am going to use a desktop PC and a PCI-card with a
stand-alone "access point".

Now to my questions ...

What are you using? Any big problems to get it to work?

  Regards / Per-Erik