Install drivers for ASUS PCE-n53 wifi card

Here, I am going to post instructions on how to install the drivers for this great wifi card. I had to search high and low for several days and had many problems. But, if you follow this, it will be super easy to install the drivers. Now, you will have to download several things and have to compile the driver from source. But, that's no big deal. Don't panic. This is really straightforward. Just follow my instructions. :dance::dance:

Now, I was going to post this over on the archlinux page where I originally found this. However, i couldn't register for an account because their stupid verification thing wouldn't work with cygwin. Whatevs. If anyone is a member over there, feel free to repost this there so others may find it easily. Here is the link to the original post at archlinux: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=152960&p=1

For mods, feel free to edit this for proper syntax and move it to the proper forum if this is not it.


OK! Let's rolllluh!

I'm installing this on the new fc18 release.

1. Go to asus and download the drivers for the card (it's in zip format). Here is the link: http://support.asus.com/download.asp...&m=PCE-N53&os=

2. Download the patch file to patch the driver to prevent an apparent kernel panic for kernel 3. Link: http://gridlox.net/diff/rt5592sta_fix_64bit_3.8.patch

3. Install audit (i kept getting an error from audit about a conflict with gcc and couldn't install gcc. this fixed it by installing audit first): 4. Install gcc-c++ :
5. Install dev tools: 6. Install gcc: 7. run uname -r to determine the kernel number you are running: 8. Install kernel source*(you need to know the exact kernel you are using so 'make' doesn't pitch a fit when you compile the driver): example: my kernel version was 3.6.10-4.fc18.x86_64. so the command would be: 9. I unzipped the files onto a usb drive in windows. Then I dragged and dropped the files onto my desktop.

10. untar the driver file on your desktop: 11. move your terminal to the folder that was untarred. then patch the file using the command If the patch file is in another directory just append the entire location. for example: if i saved the patch file to my desktop, i would move to the directory where i untarred my driver, then run the code 12. Once you have the driver folder patched, then you can build the driver. Run 13. run: 14. Now, you need to load up the driver with this command: 15. Now, the wifi should be working. You can run to see your wifi card. But, take note that it will be listed as r0 and NOT wlan0.

Happy Nettin! If you experience any problems then please, please, post them here so I can help. Also, if this works for you then please state that here also so we all can know this procedure works!!! Yay! Have fun!!!