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

[Mike]

Jim <mickeyboa <at> sbcglobal.net> writes:

> 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.

Yes indeed - I should have mentioned the version number - 
In my case it is EW7318UG72CA02674 (V3.0B) 

The lsusb output includes
idProduct 0x2573 RT2501USB Wireless Adapter