[SOLVED] LM19 - trying to install Netgear A6210 driver from github

[wrd2093au]

Apologies if this is the wrong place to post this question. After installing LM 19.1 64-bit on an older PC with only wifi access, am trying to get its Netgear WND3100v3 (USB wifi dongle) working.

Some previous threads here had led me to the Netgear-A6210 driver so I thought I would install that.

I was attempting to follow instructions to install the driver here: https://github.com/jurobystricky/Netgear-A6210

I have copied the GitHub repository manually (as zip file, then extract to the PC).

When I run

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make

command, I see the following output, with an error:

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bill@bill-z69029:~/Netgear-A6210$ make
export DBGFLAGS

*** Building driver with debug messages ***

cp -f os/linux/Makefile.6 /home/bill/Netgear-A6210/os/linux/Makefile
make -C /lib/modules/4.15.0-20-generic/build DBGFLAGS=-DDBG SUBDIRS=/home/bill/Netgear-A6210/os/linux modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.15.0-20-generic'
Makefile:976: "Cannot use CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION=y, please install libelf-dev, libelf-devel or elfutils-libelf-devel"
  CC [M]  /home/bill/Netgear-A6210/os/linux/../../os/linux/sta_ioctl.o
In file included from ./include/linux/bitmap.h:9:0,
                 from ./include/linux/cpumask.h:12,
                 from ./arch/x86/include/asm/cpumask.h:5,
                 from ./arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h:11,
                 from ./arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:21,
                 from ./arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h:5,
                 from ./arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h:53,
                 from ./include/linux/thread_info.h:38,
                 from ./arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:7,
                 from ./include/linux/preempt.h:81,
                 from ./include/linux/spinlock.h:51,
                 from ./include/linux/seqlock.h:36,
                 from ./include/linux/time.h:6,
                 from ./include/linux/stat.h:19,
                 from ./include/linux/module.h:10,
                 from /home/bill/Netgear-A6210/include/os/rt_linux.h:14,
                 from /home/bill/Netgear-A6210/include/rtmp_os.h:30,
                 from /home/bill/Netgear-A6210/include/rtmp_comm.h:64,
                 from /home/bill/Netgear-A6210/os/linux/../../os/linux/sta_ioctl.c:33:
In function ‘memcpy’,
    inlined from ‘rt_ioctl_iwaplist’ at /home/bill/Netgear-A6210/os/linux/../../os/linux/sta_ioctl.c:549:2:
./include/linux/string.h:340:4: error: call to ‘__read_overflow2’ declared with attribute error: detected read beyond size of object passed as 2nd parameter
    __read_overflow2();
    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
scripts/Makefile.build:332: recipe for target '/home/bill/Netgear-A6210/os/linux/../../os/linux/sta_ioctl.o' failed
make[2]: *** [/home/bill/Netgear-A6210/os/linux/../../os/linux/sta_ioctl.o] Error 1
Makefile:1552: recipe for target '_module_/home/bill/Netgear-A6210/os/linux' failed
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/bill/Netgear-A6210/os/linux] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.15.0-20-generic'
Makefile:59: recipe for target 'debug' failed
make: *** [debug] Error 2

Hoping someone can interpret this error and give any suggestions to get past it? Or is this driver not compatible with LM 19.1?

Thanks in advance.

[Pierre]

Hi Bill,
did you follow the Git Hub Instructions,,
To build the driver, follow these steps:

$ git clone https://github.com/jurobystricky/Netgear-A6210
$ cd Netgear-A6210
$ make
$ sudo make install

as well as that make command ?.

also2: did you note the section called DKMS Install & where you can add the module to DKMS - on Debian-based distros?.

[ajgringo619]

I just went through this exact same thing today with a different WiFi adapter. You need to install libelf-dev. If you look at the output of the make command, you'll see the complaint near the top.

[wrd2093au]

Thanks for the replies!

Installed libelf-dev but still no luck getting the "make" to work with that version of the driver.

However with a bit more searching, I found a thread elsewhere that mentioned another driver version which it says is for "kernel 4.15 and up" ...

https://github.com/kaduke/Netgear-A6210

Using this one (instead of the jurobysticky version) and it installed first time, and the wireless now works (once I rebooted and restarted the network service).

[aprilloper]

This solved my wifi issue. I'm using LM 18.3 with Linux kernel 4.15.

Thanks