To preface here, I'm new to Linux and I came from Windows 10. So I did the dual-boot and now I have Win10 and LMDE Debbie. I was under the impression that Linux distributions will install most of the drivers in a pretty intuitive way so I was disappointed when my wifi adapter wasn't working. I found a solution that sort of worked which was:
and then I followed from the readmeJeremyB wrote: ⤴Sat Sep 23, 2017 2:25 pm It is a Mediatek, see https://github.com/jurobystricky/Netgear-A6210
You can use Windows to download https://github.com/jurobystricky/Netgea ... master.zip
Put it on the Linux Mint desktop, right click on file, choose extract here, then in terminalCode: Select all
cd Desktop/Netgear-A6210-master
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make
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sudo make install
## DKMS Install
On Debian-based distros, you can add the module to DKMS so it will automatically
build and install on each successive kernel upgrade. To do this, issue the following
commands from within the repo's folder:
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$ cd ..
$ sudo mv Netgear-A6210/ /usr/src/netgear-a6210-2.5.0
$ sudo dkms install netgear-a6210/2.5.0