Edimax EW-7318USG as Access Point?

[Jon Fairbairn <jon.fairbairn@cl.cam.ac.uk>]

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.

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J=C3=B3n Fairbairn                                 Jon.Fairbairn@cl.cam=
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