Using the Asus AC56 in Linux

22 Feb, 2018 · by author · Read in about 1 min · (113 Words)
asus wifi

This USB Wifi dongle was bought by our lab. But when I finally got it in my hands, I saw that the driver CD was missing. So I decided to hunt for the driver from the interwebz. This is my journey.

Download the driver from this link. Download it as a ZIP
Unzip the contents and go inside the directory

Get all essentials for make

sudo apt install linux-headers-generic build-essential

Make and install
```
make
sudo make install
```
Reboot. You should now be able to see wifi APs. Check with the command
```
sudo iwlist wlan0 scan | grep -i ESSID
```

See the previous post regarding how to connect to an AP.

Source : Stackoverflow