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I was very pleased that this card worked out of the box for Linux. Installation was as simple as unpackaging it and plugging it into my system. As an added bonus the card supports monitor mode allowing you to use programs like Kismet to their fullest abilities.
This is a lousy wifi adapter. Vague, confusion instructions. Do not buy. Terrible range; my laptop does fine and my router is at the other end of my whole-floor brownstone apartment, that's probably over 70 ft away with 2 plaster walls in between. There are 64-bit adapters available. 4 bars consistently. I barely got to this page on it. Nothing but a waste of time.
This can rarely get above 2 bars. Constantly loses connection - cancelled downloads ahoy. Especially if you were trying to use it on Windows 7 like me. I am returning this as it is effectively broken, and trying one of those.
What was nice about this besides getting it in only 2 days, is that there is support in linux for the adapter and it worked right out of the box.
Used this with an Abit KG7 mobo.Card locks up the computer at completely random intervals. I've gone to the vendor's website and grabbed the latest updates & drivers. No help.The install instructions mention not using Windows zero wireless configuration but the included programs make no provision for connecting to secure networks.You may be able to use it with an unsecured network if you're sure all of your neighbors like you well enough that they won't poach your connection to send death threats to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
I devoted 3-4 hours to trying to get it to work, thought I had it, then I got the dreaded blue screen of death(again) for the last time. I don't have objective evidence, but I suspect this hardware driver has compatibility problems with some systems, i.e., HP dc5700 minitower running Windows XP. My system has a bluetooth adapter enabled. The mfgr support would only tell me to reinstall, which is par, but which did not provide a solution. I'm sending it back.
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