Grr
I have one of those, it does suck that the card won't support 802.11n or dual band.
I tried it with a USB dongle and it works, thats hardly the point now is it.
In fact this problem is precisely why I am shortly going to be releasing a workaround in the form of a BIOS upgrade chip that also supports booting DoC directly allowing the machine to be used as a Linux b0xen without any hard drive installed.
Turns out that an SD card only uses 20mA if you access it only when needed, with the screen off the whole machine only draws <500mA which is not that much more than an Intel Compute stick.