> My question is, has anyone set up a base station using one of the
> Orinoco cards?  

What do you mean by base station? 
I have orinoco cards in both my laptops and also in the firewall box --
which connects to both my wired and wireless networks and routes their
traffic through the net connections. 

> Looking at a few sites, it seems that the Orinoco cards are much better
> supported but before I grab some I wanted to see if anyone has
> experience with them versus the Prism2 cards.

With 2.2.X kernels I used Prism chipset cards. The linux-wlan project, 
http://www.linux-wlan.com/, has drivers for PrismII cards for both 2.2 and
2.4 kernels. They also have a mailing list. 

Andy

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dave
>