TP-Link TL-WN725N not recognized

[bergfruehling]

It seems, that TP-Link changed the Chip in their TL-WN725N device and that this revision is currently not compatible with the Raspberry Pi, see e.g. http://www.forum-raspberrypi.de/Thread-tl-wn725n-unter-raspian (in german) and http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-954862-start-0.html for a similar problem. The Product ID (see dmesg) for my device is 8179 -- does anyone have a working TL-WN725N and can post his Product ID?

In the Gentoo Forum, someone posted a link to a driver that _might_ handle this revision: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg105579.html. Is it possible to use this on ARM with the Raspberry Pi?

Anyway, it could be a good idea to place a note in the list of recommended hardware, that the TP-Link stick does not seem to work in newer revision...

Cheers,
Henning