This pcmcia card runs on an atmel chipset, and has a retractable antenna.
The drivers are sort of buggy--I cannot get the card to show anything but a 40% link quality (no matter how near or far I am from the AP), and if I try to hibernate w/ this card, it will not reconnect after I unhibernate (even if I put it down w/ cardctl or cardmgr before I hibernate).
Overall, I wouldn't recommend this card--I've had much better luck w/ a prism D-Link wifi nic.
I posted the above review, and things w/ this card are seeming to work better. I'm using Ubuntu now (was using Slack 9 before), and the Ubuntu drivers do a better job (I was using CVS from the atmel project, so maybe they are just improved all around?).
I can now get the actual link quality, but I still wouldn't recommend this for a laptop that you plan on suspending (sleep/hibernate), because the driver doesn't unload or reload very well. The driver remains somewhat finicky, tho it's definitely gotten better.
Would you recommend the product? no | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 5
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.15-27-386
Distribution:
Ubuntu: Dapper
I bought this wireless card and ran it under Ubuntu Breezy and it worked fine, but now I've upgraded to Dapper I may as well not have the card for all the trouble it's caused me.
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