Which would be 1 year AFTER XP shipped. Vista and 2008 detect the adapter in my PowerEdges fine.
And remember it DOES work in XP, you just have to spend 3 minutes installing a driver from a disk you were provided. Not that tough.
And the writer says so.
He also says that it DOESN'T WORK OUT OF THE BOX.
He had to fiddle with it to get it to work.
It doesn't matter how "tough" it is. What matters is that for all of the hand-wringing about how Linux is "too hard," it's actually easier to install than the most popular version of Windows today.