I'm using this card for something that it was perhaps not intended for

I am using it with a pcmcia to cf adapter on a laptop

The card works, however it gets very hot, especially after being used 4+ hours.

In using this card with an old laptop, IE non CARDBUS, i type the following before inserting the card

modprobe orinoco_cs ignore_cis_vcc=1

and then after inserting the card I start networking with

/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 start

or

dhcpcd eth0

I believe the 'ignore_cis_vcc=1' is telling the machine to disregarding the fact that this is a 3.3v cf card being used in a 5v pcmcia slot.

I have used it about 3 hours a night for the last 2 months.

In the slackware /etc/pcmcia/config file, there is default the card is listed, so there is some sort of default support for the device. Perhaps with CARDBUS using laptops ?