Comment 2 for bug 67607

Another addendum for others trying to get this card working in Edgy:

With just a little manual configuration, this card is functioning fine with the current drivers in Edgy.

First I configured it in network-admin.

Then I edited /etc/network/interfaces to add these lines to the "iface wlan0 ..." stanza:

  post-up iwlist scan
  post-up iwconfig wlan0 ap XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX

(where XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX is the address of my access point)

That's all. In total, my wlan0 stanza in /etc/network/interfaces looks like this:

iface wlan0 inet static
wireless-essid <my SSID>
address 192.168.1.37 # my IP address
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
post-up iwlist scan
post-up iwconfig wlan0 ap <my access point address>

...with only the "post-up" lines having been added by hand. I suspect a DHCP configuration could be made to work similarly.

So this is not as bad as I thought at first. Still, it would be better if this hardware could work automagically...