It's somewhat amusing how Itanium managed to completely miss the mark, and just how short its heyday was.
It's also somewhat amusing that I'm still today helping host a pair of HPE Itanium blades - and two two-node DEC Alpha servers - for OpenVMS development.
Ah, I had one of those wireless sticks from Netgear as well, probably a different model but still a royal pain to get it working.
Luckily ndiswrapper has become a thing of the past nowadays.