It worked for me using a Patriot Wireless 11n USB adapter on Ubuntu Lucid in 2012. The darn thing advertised that it works for linux but it is not easy. It seems mine shows up as Realtek 8191 (It worked very intuitively in my windowsXP in VirtualBox, Grrr).

I noticed this ubuntu thread is similar http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1635577 (because it is mentioning the realtek driver) Someone on there references some Rosewill drivers. I had a look at the driver just to see if it was similar. Not only similar but it is in fact identical! LOL I was considering either the Patriot or the Rosewill on newegg. Obviously not a real choice!

Anyway after messing around with all the broken makefiles in there and getting the freeze up like you I just cut and pasted your billion driver and the darn thing works like a charm. Thanks so much. I nearly gave up.

I’m still a little clear on updates though. Is this going to break when my ubuntu kernel updates? Or because they put those unstable things in the kernel for ubuntu, unlike fedora, it should just keep working?

Anyway, I suppose I’ll find out on the next update. If it breaks I guess I’ll come here and bitch about it (not that it would be in any way your fault, just to document the issue)

Good thing I have a LAN connection on this machine too otherwise I’d be quite stuck. That is the really annoying thing with bad wifi support for linux from manufacturers. Sure, one can get it going with the help of the internet but it’s a bit of a chicken or the egg thing.

Cheers,
rusl

rpm -qa |grep kmod-staging
uname -r

-c

I’m getting these first few lines when I plug the device:
usb 1-2.3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 16
usb 1-2.3: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=8172
usb 1-2.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 1-2.3: SerialNumber: 00e04c000001

But nothing more

Any Ideas?

Really a good work

-c