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

[Erik P. Olsen]

On 22/03/08 00:39, bruce wrote:
> hey...
> 
> for what it's worth...  i have a fc8 laptop running x86_64. i have a linksys
> usb dongle/wifi hanging off of it.
> 
> lsusb: >> Linksys WUSB54GC 802.11g Adapter [ralink rt73]
> 
> given that my contacts are screwing up.. can't tell you the actual
> mfg/serial number.
> 
> however, i can tell you that if you hit best buy/fry's etc... and get a
> handful of the different usb devices, you're probably going to find one that
> works, or is registered when you plug it in...
> 
> plug the devices in, and hit lsusb, and see which one lights up, and is
> dieplayed...
> 
> the linksys dongle worked for me...
> 
> btw, with this setup, there's no need to run madwif/ndiswrapper/etc...
> 
> by the way (again).. i'm running 2.6.24.3...
> 
> peace...
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Jim
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 2:34 PM
> To: For users of Fedora
> Subject: Re: PCMCIA wireless card that "works out of the box"?
> 
> 
> 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.

Is there a way to tell with which chipset your usb dongle is equipped?

-- 
Erik.