This is the most rock-stable card on the planet. It works with Debian Sid 2.6.37 out-of-the-box! The card has every feature imaginable, including international roaming, but there does not exist a configuration program that fully exploits the capabilities of this PCMCIA wireless NIC.

But here's the greatest part: inside the card, to the left of the LEDs are external antenna connectors. You have to custom modify the plastic casing with a razor knife to get at the connectors, but once you do you've got a 2.4 and 5 Ghz wireless broadcasting station.

Just keep the high gain antennas at least 10 feet away from humans and pets. I had one about 8 inches away from my face, and that side of my head heated up.

These are microwaves, kids, so wear your aluminum foil helmets. I bought 40 of these cards. You can use them for literally every, or many, high frequency radio projects.

I just plug in the card, and it works. I didn't mess around with manual configuration. Wicd just picks it up and you're connected! My mini-pci card dropped the signal if I sneezed too hard.

My external USB card picks up a better signal, but it's slow as all get-out. This card is fast as hell.

Check out this error rate! I'm doing an update of a local Debian mirror:

wlan2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:96:00:00:00:00
inet addr:192.168.1.198 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::240:00:00:00/5.5 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2596361 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1377582 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3863265879 (3.5 GiB) TX bytes:117623178 (112.1 MiB)

3.5 GIGABYTES, AND NOT A SINGLE ERROR!! And I'm 100 feet away from tha access point, and the signal is traveling through 2 ceilings and some metal duct work. And that's using an unmodified card.