I’m trying to install a Linksys WUSB600n dual-band USB wireless-N adapter onto a desktop system with opensuse 11.1 installed; this system will be migrating to a back porch with no cabling access, hence the wireless solution. Everything works fine under Windows XP, but on Linux, not so much.
Hardware info is as follows; there is no “Wireless LAN” entry, but there is a USB entry:
99: udi = ‘/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_1737_71_noserial’
info.subsystem = ‘usb_device’
usb_device.vendor = ‘Linksys’
usb_device.bus_number = 1 (0x1)
linux.subsystem = ‘usb’
usb_device.product = ‘Dual-Band Wireless-N USB Network Adapter’
info.product = ‘Dual-Band Wireless-N USB Network Adapter’
linux.device_file = ‘/dev/bus/usb/001/006’
usb_device.linux.sysfs_path = ‘/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-6’
usb_device.device_revision_bcd = 257 (0x101)
info.udi = ‘/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_1737_71_noserial’
usb_device.configuration_value = 1 (0x1)
usb_device.max_power = 450 (0x1c2)
usb_device.num_configurations = 1 (0x1)
usb_device.num_ports = 0 (0x0)
usb_device.num_interfaces = 1 (0x1)
usb_device.linux.device_number = 6 (0x6)
linux.sysfs_path = ‘/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-6’
usb_device.device_class = 0 (0x0)
info.parent = ‘/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_1d6b_2_0000_00_1d_7’
usb_device.device_subclass = 0 (0x0)
info.vendor = ‘Linksys’
usb_device.speed = 480.000
usb_device.device_protocol = 0 (0x0)
usb_device.version = 2.00000
info.linux.driver = ‘usb’
usb_device.vendor_id = 5943 (0x1737)
usb_device.is_self_powered = false
usb_device.product_id = 113 (0x71)
usb_device.can_wake_up = false
linux.hotplug_type = 2 (0x2)
dmesg yields:
usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
usb 1-6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 1-6: New USB device found, idVendor=1737, idProduct=0071
usb 1-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 1-6: Product: Dual-Band Wireless-N USB Network Adapter
usb 1-6: Manufacturer: Cisco-Linksys LLC
usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-1: not running at top speed; connect to a high speed hub
usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
which doesn’t sound good. The device is plugged into the same USB port that Windows uses without any problems. No references to missing firmware, however.
iwlist scan gives:
lo Interface doesn’t support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn’t support scanning.
I’m using ifup, not NetworkManager, although I tried the latter. Neither method sees my adapter, although I’m not at all certain what I ought to be doing in either case to add or search for it. wpa_supplicant is installed.
I suspect there aren’t drivers for this device. I see that Ralink, the makers of the chipset, provide source code for building a driver as a kernel module, but installation seems to be geared toward a system other than opensuse. They suggest storing a <chipset>.dat file in /etc/Wireless, but I don’t see this directory used by anything in opensuse, and suspect whatever I put there won’t be found. Clueless how to proceed on this point.
lsusb yields:
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 058f:9360 Alcor Micro Corp. 8-in-1 Media Card Reader
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 04b8:081f Seiko Epson Corp. Stylus CX7700/7800
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 1737:0071 Linksys
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Not sure at all how to proceed from here
