Linksys WUSB600N ver. 2

[fred smith]

On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 08:58:19AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>  On 08/08/2010 08:51 AM, JD wrote:
> >   On 08/07/2010 03:56 PM, binarynut at comcast.net wrote:
> >>    fedora 13
> >>
> >> A Linksys  wireless WUSB600 ver. 2
> >>
> >> Does anyone know about a Driver for this device , in all wireless sites
> >> they say a ver.1 is supported but not ver. 2 ?
> > The  Linksys WUSB600N  driver is available in the unsupported
> > section of the vanilla kernel.
> > The chipset in the WUSB600N is the RalinkTech 2860, so the driver
> > is the rt2860.
> >
> > To try it (and I doubt very much it will work), you need to get the 
> > source rpm
> > of your kernel version, and configure it manually (make xconfig) and
> > select the rt2860 from the "staging" drivers.
> That isn't quite accurate....
> 
> One can install rt2860 and kmod-rt2860 packages from rpmfusion and cards
> based on that chipset should work just fine.   My HP system has that and
> I've had no problems with it.

likewise with the rt2860sta in my eeepc 901. Definitely try the
kmod or akmod from rpmfusion!
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