I'm looking for a USB dongle with an external antenna that will serve both as an access point on my home router (an old IBM PC running linux off a CF card), and as a WPA capable station for my IBM X30 laptop when not at home. The Edimax EW-7318USG looks promising, but the wiki at <http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers> has but a qualified yes under AP for the rt73usb driver. Before I buy one, please can someone give me an idea of what yes[footnote: under development] means? Is it an optimistic version of "no[footnote: under development]", or a pessimistic version of "yes, it works barring a minor hitch or two"? I'm not averse to building kernel modules, possibly applying experimental patches, but I don't want to keep having to do that for years, and if it doesn't work at all now, I'd rather wait for further developments before choosing (maybe a different dongle is more likely to work?). The other side of the issue is WPA: the airo card on the laptop works OK with WEP, but there doesn't seem to be any prospect of WPA on that, unless I mis-googled. -- Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
