whb

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After much frustration trying to find native drivers and trying to get ndiswrapper working, I've given up on this card. My recommendation would be to avoid this device completely. It is extremely difficult to get working -- I have not found one review or tutorial anywhere that didn't say it was impossible. I'm on my way right now to exchange it for something made by Ralink... the non-Linux-compatible Broadcom chipset is a headache.

joewhite

I've managed to get this working fine with ndiswrapper and WPA_Supplicant. The problem is that a file /etc/udev/rules.d/99-custom.rules (may vary) needs to be created with this line on older udev:

BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="7051", SYSFS{idVendor}=="050d", RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'echo 1 > /sys/$devpath/device/bConfigurationValue'"

but on my Arch 2.6.20 installation of udev there is a new syntax

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="7051", ATTR{idVendor}=="050d", ATTR{bConfigurationValue}="1"

The code and the Udev rules file that need to be edited may vary from distro to distro and it may become a pain updating this code if it changes again in the future (unless they fix it properley) but nevertheless this dongle is excellent in my opinion. I had an F5D7050 and it had to be installed in a certain trial and error order to get it working in Windows and in Linux it kept going down after a short while with ndiswrapper. I also had no luck with a D-Link DWL-G122 although I suspect it was faulty. They both use an rt73 chipset. But this version installed in a few minutes, no exaggeration, just by following the quick install and so far at leat I have had no problems in Linux. I would give it a ten but it took me a few hours to figure out how to set it up and it uses a Broadcomm chip that isn't supported by the native drivers.