This was one of the more expensive 802.11b PCI cards out there when I bought it last week but I have had no complaints. I read a lot of information about different linksys and dlink cards and I found that both of those companies had multiple chipsets in a different revs. of the same model number product. I knew I wanted a card with a Prism 2.5 chipset so I went with the Netgear because ALL MA311 cards have a Prism 2.5 chipset on them.

I had already compiled the prism 2 chipset support into my 2.6 kernel knowing I was going to be purchasing this card so it was up and running about 15 minutes after I got it home. All I had to do was slap it in, boot, enable the interface, run iwconfig to tell it what SSID to look for and what WEP key to use and run dhcpcd.

I have since had several friends buy this card who were struggling with wireless products from other companies and they also had no problems getting it to work on various different distributions and kernel versions.

Note on the price: I got a 10 dollar mail in rebate. The list price was $60.

This is an excellent wireless network card. After experiencing the horror of the acx-based D-Link cards, this was a breath of fresh air.

I didn't have to install any drivers or recompile my kernel at all; the card worked right out of the box, Slackware automatically configured DHCP. It hasn't disconnected itself and seems to be a reliable card. If you're using a different distro or kernel, it may not work as easily, but don't expect too much trouble. I've heard that this is a fairly easy card to get up and running with.

I recommend this to anyone trying to get a wireless network set up with a Linux system.

all I did was "modprobe orinoco_pci" and everything worked great

As above, worked out of box on a default install of Mandrake 9.2. Type "modprobe orinoco_pci"

Excellant.

Worked straight out of the box. I use Netgear MR814 router and DHCP to assign IPs. Zero config required with fedora.

Works flawlessly with the hostap drivers. For many years now I've used my Slackware boxen to provide Net access on my home network. With the hostap driver and this card, you can make your Linux box into a wireless access point! I'm writing this from my WiFi laptop while sitting on the front porch sipping lemonade. ;-)