wireless woes

i spent a great number of hours this weekend trying to get a wireless PCMCIA card working. i was reading docs, googling, recompiling kernels, modifying source code… but to no avail. as a last ditch effort i installed Windows (since the card has supported drivers for Windows) but even this didn’t work. i’ll take the laptop & card to work tomorrow and see if i can get it going on that wireless network. if so, then there is simply too much wireless interference from my neighbors. if i can coerce one of my co-workers to try it and it works, then i can only conclude that my laptop is too slow to handle it. if nothing works then i will print out the amazon return slip and put it in the mailbox. i’m hoping it either works in my laptop at work or not at all. i need a working wireless connection for my AI class, which starts in about two weeks…