Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Linksys WUSB600N ver.2 driver for Linux and How to install it

Linksys WUSB600N ver.2 used Ralink RT3572 chipset, so please go to the Ralink website to download it first.
Steps:
1. Uncompress 2010_1215_RT3572_Linux_STA_v2.5.0.0.DPO.bz2
2. Plug in WUSB600N to your Linux box.
3. To execute "demsg" command to examine the vendor id and product id of WUSB600N. (it should be 1737/0079)
4. Added {USB_DEVICE(0×1737,0×0079)}, /* Linksys WUSB600N v2 */ to the /common/rtusb_dev_id.c file
5. Modified /os/linux/config.mk file to give you WPA encryption:
# Support Wpa_Supplicant
HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT=y
# Support Native WpaSupplicant for Network Maganger
HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT=y
6. # make && make install && reboot
7. After system reboot successfully then plug in the WUSB600N to the Linux box again, and to execute "ifconfig -a" command then you will see the new device ra0

1 comment:

Nanakai said...

Where is the #make and make install please help would be much appreciated