Saturday, January 12, 2019

wireless - driver 8812au install with NO ethernet access



I apologize in advance if this is covered in a previous post. However, I've searched and searched and have only found solutions for people with access to an ethernet connection. I am currently running windows 8.1 using my netgear A6100 wireless USB adapter, and unfortunately it is the only access I have to the internet. According to previous posts i've found, such as





and






I need the 8812au driver in order to get wireless access from my netgear A6100.



this would be great



sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic build-essential git
git clone https://github.com/abperiasamy/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux.git
cd ~/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux
make
sudo make install

sudo modprobe 8812au


except I can't install anything via this route because I do not have a temporary ethernet connection.



My question is, is there any way I can download this driver in windows, save it to a storage device, and open it in ubuntu and compile it offline?



Many thanks!



You can do the following:





  1. On another computer go to that github site:
    https://github.com/abperiasamy/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux and download
    the zip (bottom right)


  2. Put that zip on a flash drive


  3. Boot into ubuntu


  4. Unzip the zip with unzip [file name] or do it by right clicking in
    your file manager


  5. cd to that folder (step 4 in your steps) and follow your steps from

    there.




EDIT: You'll probably need build-essential if it's not already installed:



http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/build-essential



Linux headers generic here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/linux-headers-generic


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