https://bgstack15.ddns.net/blog/enContents © 2025 <a href="mailto:bgstack15@gmail.com">bgstack15</a> <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"> <img alt="Creative Commons License BY-SA" style="border-width:0; margin-bottom:12px;" src="https://bgstack15.ddns.net/.images/l_by-sa_4.0_88x31.png"></a>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:30:58 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://bgstack15.ddns.net/blog/posts/2025/03/21/current-place-for-driver-for-netgear-AC600-usb-wnic/bgstack15<p>My <a href="https://bgstack15.ddns.net/blog/posts/2018/10/16/netgear-ac600-usb-wnic-drivers-for-linux/">previous post</a> about drivers for the Netgear AC600 is years old and that driver does not compile for kernel 6.12.19 or whatever version we're on now.</p> <p>Thankfully, a quick Internet search reveals <a href="https://bgstack15.ddns.net/blog/outbound/https:/github.com/lwfinger/rtw88">https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw88</a> as a new place you can get such a driver. They had dkms instructions. I didn't need the Secure Boot MOK stuff, so for me it was:</p> <div class="code"><pre class="code literal-block">cd /usr/src &amp;&amp; sudo git clone https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw88.git rtw88-0.6 sudo dkms add -m rtw88 -v 0.6 sudo dkms build -m rtw88 -v 0.6 sudo dkms install -m rtw88 -v 0.6 sudo dkms status </pre></div> <p>And then because it was about drivers for low-level stuff, I just rebooted. I poked at modprobe but a reboot was OK. I might have done an <code>update-grub</code> but maybe that was just for the latest kernel and headers anyways.</p> <p>So then I could <code>rfkill unblock all</code> (gotta change that) and my dusty usb wnic works again, 7 years later!</p> <h3>Sidenote</h3> <p>Man, <a href="https://bgstack15.ddns.net/blog/outbound/https:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support">dkms</a> is really awesome!</p>devuandkmsdriverswirelesswnichttps://bgstack15.ddns.net/blog/posts/2025/03/21/current-place-for-driver-for-netgear-AC600-usb-wnic/Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:30:00 GMT