I purchased one specifically because RT2561 does work out-of-the-box on Fedora 
8 (rpm -qif /lib/firmware/rt2561.bin) - I assume that means it probably works 
with the recent Ubuntu also.

-Dave


On Friday 14 December 2007 09:10:30 pm Florin Iucha wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 08:20:33PM -0600, Rob Bayerl wrote:
> > I'm not 100% that it works in 6.06, but the best wireless card I've
> > found (so far) is the Gigabyte GN-WP01GS
> > (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16839121008).
> > It's the RaLink RT2561 chipset.  It doesn't come with a low profile
> > bracket (at least not from newegg), but those are fairly standard in
> > design.  I would think your biggest problem would be the Ubuntu
> > drivers since all of the wireless cards I've seen lately seem to be
> > low profile.
>
> Rob,
>
> Does this card work with Ubuntu 7.10 or Fedora 8 out of the box?
>
> Thanks,
> florin