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@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]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. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
