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I have tried it in several laptops with no success. Even so, the product has failed to work. A complete waste of money and time. I received this product with no software, drivers, or manual. So I had to scour the Internet looking for them.
Although all of my home computers have integrated wireless now, I still keep this on hand just in case someone comes to my home that needs one to get on my network. I used this as my secondary card and it has outlasted all of my computers that needed an external wireless card. Purchased this as my first wireless card in 2003 along with a Netgear wireless router. Was so pleased, that when 802.11g came along, I bought the similar router and card for that standard.
It has a well documented and easily fixed error with Open SuSE (10.2 and 10.3) and works out of the box with Ubuntu (7.04,7.10,8.04,8.10) and Debian (Etch). My Dell laptop connects to my network 24/7 to run a file server using this card and I've experienced no problems.
I noticed a little slowdown and some connection dropping, but it's not the card's fault (and it wasn't a big deal). The windows 98/2k/ME/XP drivers are available from the Netgear website and the card is OK with windows, too.
I bought this card specifically for its Linux compatibility. I've gotten speeds as high as 120 kb/s, which is as fast as my DSL will go.
Remember that this card is PCMCIA and may not work with many new laptops because they don't have this slot, but it is great for old laptops. I haven't been disappointed.
It is as fast as my wireless g cards in my other computers (so there's no slowdown on my network from it being a b card).
Do not recommend. This wireless PC card does work intermittently, but is very inconsistent and slow.
Whatever product you will buy from Netgear, you will never get the rebate amount. product works great. but i never recieved the rebate amount.
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