PCMCIA wireless card that "works out of the box"?

[Jim]

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.