working usb wifi card, that is still possible to buy

[Pavel Machek <pma@sysgo.com>]

Hi!

Is there an USB wifi card that can still be bought in reasonable
ammount (like 1000 pieces) and is well supported by Linux?

So far I tried carl9170 (as seen by previous mails) and
rt2x00usb. carl9170 is not really usable; rt2x00usb works a bit
better, but also fails after some time:

phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x07 failed
for offset.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x06 failed
for offset.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x07 failed
for offset.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x06 failed
for offset.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x07 failed
for offset.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x06 failed
for offset.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x07 failed
for offset.
...
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x07 failed
for offset.
usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ppc-of-ohci and address 3
usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -62
usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -62
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ppc-of-ohci and address 4
usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -62
usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -62
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ppc-of-ohci and address 5
usb 1-1: device not accepting address 5, error -62
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ppc-of-ohci and address 6
usb 1-1: device not accepting address 6, error -62
hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ppc-of-ohci and address 7
usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -62
usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -62
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ppc-of-ohci and address 8
usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -62
usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -62
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ppc-of-ohci and address 9
usb 1-1: device not accepting address 9, error -62
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ppc-of-ohci and address 10
usb 1-1: device not accepting address 10, error -62
hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1

(is that failing firmware?) 

Note that this is powerpc with OHCI/USB1.1 controller.
								Pavel