Installing A WUSB600N In Linux

At current date (august 2013) the linux kernel does not have the drivers necessary to make the Cisco/Linksys WUSB600N usb N WIFI adapter work out of the box. The following is a guide on installing the drivers.


Download Driver File

CLICK HERE to download the drive file package


Extract Driver File

Open a terminal and in the folder where the file downloaded



Determine Device ID

Plug in the usb dongle and in a terminal



You will get a output like the following:



The text "" 1737:0079 "" is the device ID which you will need to enter into a file shortly


Edit Required Driver Files

in a terminal enter into the extracted driver folder and...



When the text editor appears on screen add the device and vendor id "{USB_DEVICE(0x1737,0x0079)}," between the "#ifdef RT35xx" and "#endif // RT35xx //" in the file "common/rtusb_dev_id.c". The file should look similiar to the following



In the same terminal window...


When the text editor appears on screen change all the following variables to "Y"


HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT


HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT



Build The Driver

In the same terminal window...enter the following commands to build the driver



Activrate The Driver

In the same terminal window...enter the following commands to activate the driver



Your wireless adapter should now be activated and working


Driver Fails After Kernel Upgrade

Your driver is built for that kernel only. If you upgrade to a newer kernel you need to rebuild for that specific kernel. This is simple and you only need to open a terminal go into the folder where the driver was extracted and run the following commands