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I am running Ubuntu 18 on a desktop. I dont have a wifi card. however, i have this Netgear A6210 usb wifi adapter. I plugged it in but it is not coming up. i think the computer did not recognize the device.

I tried installing the driver following these instruction i founf online that seems to work for everyone. But i get this error message.

Instruction:

git clone https://github.com/jurobystricky/Netgear-A6210



cd Netgear-A6210



make



sudo make install

Error message:

~/Documents/Netgear-A6210$ make

export DBGFLAGS



*** Building driver with debug messages ***



cp -f os/linux/Makefile.6 /home/alseny/Documents/Netgear-A6210/os/linux/Makefile



make -C /lib/modules/4.15.0-20-generic/build DBGFLAGS=-DDBG SUBDIRS=/home/alseny/Documents/Netgear-A6210/os/linux modules



make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.15.0-20-generic'

  CC [M]  /home/alseny/Documents/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/alseny/Documents/Netgear-A6210/include/os/rt_linux.h:14,

                 from /home/alseny/Documents/Netgear-A6210/include/rtmp_os.h:30,

                 from /home/alseny/Documents/Netgear-A6210/include/rtmp_comm.h:64,

                 from /home/alseny/Documents/Netgear-A6210/os/linux/../../os/linux/sta_ioctl.c:33:

In function ‘memcpy’,

    inlined from ‘rt_ioctl_iwaplist’ at /home/alseny/Documents/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/alseny/Documents/Netgear-A6210/os/linux/../../os/linux/sta_ioctl.o' failed

make[2]: *** [/home/alseny/Documents/Netgear-A6210/os/linux/../../os/linux/sta_ioctl.o] Error 1

Makefile:1552: recipe for target '_module_/home/alseny/Documents/Netgear-A6210/os/linux' failed

make[1]: *** [_module_/home/alseny/Documents/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

I suggest that you remove the inoperable file:

cd ~/Documents

rm -rf Netgear-A6210

Now clone and build a better version:

git clone -b port-to-4.15 https://github.com/kaduke/Netgear-A6210.git

cd Netgear-A6210

make

sudo make install

Reboot.

Just installed it today, 2 March 2019 in Ubuntu 18.10. Fully working!. Thanks!