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I bought one of the Linksys WPC11 (11Mbps 802.11b) WLAN-cards. The card works fine on linux-systems with the following settings in /etc/pcmcia/config:

card "Linksys WPC11 11Mbps 802.11b WLAN Card"
  manfid 0x0274, 0x1612
  bind "orinoco_cs"

Hint: notice the 0x1612 – especially if your are using debian ;-). With the orinoco-0.13e-patch from http://airsnort.shmoo.com/orinocoinfo.html you are cabable of monitoring (see iwpriv for details whether the driver supports monitoring or not) e.g. with kismet.

Also my FreeBSD (5.2.1-RC1) detects the WLAN-card and with the following settings using it works for me:

#!/bin/sh
ifconfig wi0 $IP netmask 255.255.255.0
ifconfig wi0 ssid $VALUE
route add -ifp wi0 default $GATEWAY

ifconfig wi0:

wi0: flags=8843<up ,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::206:25ff:fe29:8f15%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 
inet $IP netmask 0xffffffe0 broadcast $BROADCAST
ether 00:06:25:29:8f:15
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps)
status: associated
ssid labor 1:labor
stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node"
channel 6 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
wepmode OFF weptxkey 1

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