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Later Orinoco cards were the mainstays for wardriving with Netstumbler and Kismet.

End of an era.

I still have one! RIP.

Orinoco was my first experience with WiFi back in my college days. I remember it being incredibly bad, with buggy drivers, and an overall horrendous experience. That was with Windows of course.

Initially the Linux drivers and wireless stack were pretty rough too, I think OpenBSD had the first open support that worked well especially for running in AP mode.

Yes but they existed. I recall this being a time when half the wifi cards used wpa supplicant which was a damn scourge - tho a necessary one. Orinoco cards didn’t require that at least.

Oof, Aironet, too. RIP kings.

Seems like they're paving the way for removal of all 16-bit PC Card support like FreeBSD.