Erik P. Olsen wrote:
Mike wrote:
> Phil Rhoades <phil <at> pricom.com.au> writes:
>
>> People,
>> I have been struggling with a Linksys wpc54g card and I have pretty
>> much
>> given up on it - I just want something that works reliably and "out of
>> the box" with native Linux (Fedora 8) support - instead of using
>
> Although the following suggestion is not for PCMCIA but for a usb
> dongle I have been using an Edimax EW-7318UG usb wireless adapter for
> some time
> on an old laptop running F8. It uses the rt73usb driver that is in
> the current
> kernels and works out of the box with no further ado. I get a solid
> 54Mbps
> connection and have had no hassles with it at all.
>
> If you have a spare usb port I can certainly recommend it. HTH
This is odd. I have an EW-7318UG dongle which I have tried in vain to
run on F8. When I configure it I get a whole list of devices non of
which is this device. If I do a lsusb I get: ID: 148f:2573 Ralink
Technologies, Corp and I can't see that mentioned either. What magic
have you done to make it work?
One thing you have got to keep in mind is that when someone tells you
that a EW-7318UG works great in his box, and he bought the dongle about
a year ago, and the Manuf. made the same model # this year, but he puts
a different Manuf. Chipset in the same model# this year.
This is what a large number of Manuf. do and the poor old Linux guy gets
caught. Because there is no Driver for that
chipset yet. You have got to watch those Version #, and then that isn't
always the truth.