I have been trying for a week to get a distro on my PCI-E rig and am having no luck. I have a 915P chipset Asus board and an X800XT PCI-E vid card. I cannot get this to configure the network properly ...
You'll have to do some research on the chipsets used in whatever cards you're considering. Most of them use the same chipsets as those used in the PCMCIA and USB devices, so it shouldn't be too much ...