Help identifying device and driver for 0bda:1724

I have a new Lenovo Ideapad Yoga 13. The onboard LAN/Bluetooth device is identified in Linux as 0bda:1724 (via lsusb). No network peripherals are reported from lspci.

Online, the vendor:product above looks to be RT2573, however, in Windows, the device is identified as RTL8723A.

I am trying to find a Linux kernel module (driver) for this WLAN card. I have tried rt2500usb, rt2x00usb, and rtl8723e, on 2.6.x and 3.x.x kernels, to no avail.

I've posted the output of lspci -nn -v and lsusb -v to: http://pastebin.com/dqvTSVjF


I've emailed Realtek techsupport, and they've sent me some new driver (zip), that should suit this card. Download - http://www.mediafire.com/?sanq19s3vv1d9c9 I'm actually trying to get my Yoga's onboard Wi-Fi with this. Hope that helps someone.


Have you tried the driver suggested in this post about the Realtek RTL8723AE-BT? If Windows is correct about the card, this model is very similar. I believe this is the link to the direct link to the wireless (non-BT) version of this driver.

I'd be curious to know if that works out for you, as I'm considering picking up a Yoga. Good luck to you.