Linksys AE1200 Wireless-N USB Adapter firmware?

[Mario-Fan]

I got this earlier today for my RasPi. Attempting to search for devices brought up nothing (right off the bat, that is), so I assumed I needed to find firmware. The product is by Cisco, so I Googled their firmware. I didn't find anything. Can anyone help?

[efflandt]

If you google "Linksys AE1200 linux" you will find discouraging information. For one thing there are several versions of AE1200, so what works or not may depend upon which version. Broadcom wireless chips often have proprietary drivers not supported by native Linux open source drivers. And while sometimes those proprietary drivers are available within Linux, the only people I saw in a brief search who got that working had to use a Windows driver using ndiswrapper in Linux. And one of those people had to find a different Windows driver than came with his AE1200, because that one did not work.

I don't even think ndiswrapper would work for Raspberry Pi, because it runs the Windows x86 drivers in a wrapper, and those would not even run on the RPi ARM cpu

While Linux has a lot of support for various hardware, I tend to shy away from accessories that "only" mention Windows, remembering the days of Winmodems and Windows only printers. At least if they mention OSX the device has broader support, and if they actually mention Linux, it should be easy enough to configure, if not work automatically.

When I recently bought a mini-WiFi for use with the Raspberry Pi, I picked an unfamiliar brand "because" it mentioned right on the box "Linux 2.4 or later", and it works great with the Pi.

[Mario-Fan]

If you google "Linksys AE1200 linux" you will find discouraging information. For one thing there are several versions of AE1200, so what works or not may depend upon which version. Broadcom wireless chips often have proprietary drivers not supported by native Linux open source drivers. And while sometimes those proprietary drivers are available within Linux, the only people I saw in a brief search who got that working had to use a Windows driver using ndiswrapper in Linux. And one of those people had to find a different Windows driver than came with his AE1200, because that one did not work.

I don't even think ndiswrapper would work for Raspberry Pi, because it runs the Windows x86 drivers in a wrapper, and those would not even run on the RPi ARM cpu

While Linux has a lot of support for various hardware, I tend to shy away from accessories that "only" mention Windows, remembering the days of Winmodems and Windows only printers. At least if they mention OSX the device has broader support, and if they actually mention Linux, it should be easy enough to configure, if not work automatically.

When I recently bought a mini-WiFi for use with the Raspberry Pi, I picked an unfamiliar brand "because" it mentioned right on the box "Linux 2.4 or later", and it works great with the Pi.

So basically, I get something else.
I've found that it's pretty darn difficult to find anything that even mentions Linux on the box. The keyboard I got didn't even mention OSX, but it was listed as confirmed to work on the site and it does indeed work.
I'm glad it's not a Sunday.

[tblake84]

Sorry to revise this thread after over a year but I am having the same problem. I am looking into the brcmfmac driver to run this adaptor (Cisco N300) and will post a follow-up but I find it hard to believe that this adaptor has been on market for so long and yet remains unsupported. Is this in the development pipeline?

[dcunited001]

don't feel so bad.

I bought TWO of them.

And threw away the receipt.

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[oenpelli]

Don't feel too bad, there is also no driver for Windows 10. The Edifax N150 is apparently ideal for Raspberry PI: http://www.edimax.com/edimax/merchandis ... /ew-7811un