Success stories!

[swails]

First of all, I must say an emphatic thank you to @jurobystricky

A little Googling trying to find a driver for my new netgear N600 dongle brought me to this page, so I decided to give it a try. Driver compiled easily and quickly, a quick little insmod followed by ip addr show and bam, there's wlan0. I click on the network icon in my panel, select my router, and it connects. It fumbles around a little at the beginning, but has been pretty stable since. So to report on my configuration that works:

Gentoo Linux, kernel 3.18.9-gentoo, with a NETGEAR N600 WNDA3100 dongle

Thanks again for making my wireless adapter not useless!

[jadenPete]

Same here 👍

[jdsmit60]

I would also like to say thank you to @jurobystricky for providing this driver. I have it working on Arch Linux, kernel version 4.5.4 with a NetGear A6210 dongle. Signal strength is a little poor compared to my laptop's built-in wireless card (Intel PRO 3945), but hey, it works and is much faster than my Intel card ever was.

I had a little trouble compiling at first but quickly realized that I didn't have linux-headers installed. Oops.

I noticed that this driver is nowhere to be found in the AUR (Arch User Repository) and I am thinking about creating a pkgbuild for this driver, something that would be a first-time thing for me... let's see if I can figure it out. If I do, I would like to ask @jurobystricky for permission to put it up on the AUR.

Once again, many thanks to @jurobystricky !

[projekt-sputnik]

I'm using a Kali Linux VM. Just cloned the repository, ran make, and make install. Everything worked fine. The problem is that I'm not sure what to do now. Running ifconfig still shows just lo and eth0. Is there something I'm missing?

[witi83]

@sabsowitz Have you tried to load the module using modprobe mt7662u_sta?

[jadenPete]

Yeah you gotta load the module.

[jadenPete]

And you can add it to /etc/modules.conf to make it start when you boot the computer

[projekt-sputnik]

@witi83 @jadenPete Thanks. That's exactly what I was looking for. I hate being 'that guy,' and I knew I was missing the command to actually load the module. For whatever reason, I was having trouble finding that info.

[jurobystricky]

The culprit may have been in "make install". Should be "sudo make install".

[projekt-sputnik]

After unplugging the dongle and plugging it back in followed by a reboot, everything is working. Thanks for all of your help. I did notice one issue. I'm using a bridged connection Kali VM. I noticed that when I get my wireless usb running in Kali VM, I lose my wireless connection outside of the VM. Is this normal?

[dvdknaap]

Nice mine netgear wnda3100v3 is working on ubuntu 16.04 thanks to your driver !

[jadenPete]

I have a Netgear WNDA3100v3 too!

[paralaks]

It works with ASUS USB-AC55 on Ubuntu 16.04. Small issues:

• Could not go beyond 300 Mhz
• There can be package loss as much as 10%
  Still I am happy! :)

[driventokill]

@jdsmit60 I'm trying it on arch linux with kernel 4.8.13-1-ARCH. My wireless adapter is netgear A6210 just like you. The wlan0 showed up by with no mac address. Have you tried it with the latest kernel?

3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

[ArnaudX]

hello
seems it's not working with Debian Stretch 4.8.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.8.11-1 (2016-12-02)
dmesg 👍 [42446.022764] usb 4-1: new high-speed USB device number 14 using ehci-pci
[42446.176125] usb 4-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0846, idProduct=9053
[42446.176130] usb 4-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[42446.176133] usb 4-1: Product: A6210
[42446.176135] usb 4-1: Manufacturer: NETGEAR
[42446.176138] usb 4-1: SerialNumber: 100
[42446.177649]
=== pAd = ffffb38107741000, size = 1282584 ===

[42446.177652] driver version: 3.0.0.1 (Jan 7 2017 13:53:46) .
[42446.179131] ==>rlt_wlan_chip_onoff(): OnOff:1, Reset= 1, pAd->WlanFunCtrl:0x0, Reg-WlanFunCtrl=0x20a
[42446.188739] RtmpChipOpsEepromHook::e2p_type=0, inf_Type=2
[42446.188740] RtmpEepromGetDefault::e2p_dafault=1
[42446.188994] NVM is EFUSE mode
[42446.188996] Endpoint(8) is for In-band Command
[42446.188997] Endpoint(4) is for WMM0 AC0
[42446.188998] Endpoint(5) is for WMM0 AC1
[42446.188999] Endpoint(6) is for WMM0 AC2
[42446.188999] Endpoint(7) is for WMM0 AC3
[42446.189000] Endpoint(9) is for WMM1 AC0
[42446.189001] Endpoint(84) is for Data-In
[42446.189002] Endpoint(85) is for Command Rsp
[42446.189245] 80211> CurTxPower = 20 dBm
[42446.189246] ====> Radar Channel 52
[42446.189247] ====> Radar Channel 54
[42446.189248] ====> Radar Channel 56
[42446.189249] ====> Radar Channel 60
[42446.189249] ====> Radar Channel 62
[42446.189250] ====> Radar Channel 64
[42446.189251] ====> Radar Channel 100
[42446.189251] ====> Radar Channel 104
[42446.189253] 80211> TxStream = 0

and nothing is working
tested on Debian Jessie and working

[andresrommier]

I was having similar issues (no networks detected) running on Arch Linux Kernel 4.9.

First I thought it was a problem with the kernel version so I switched to the LTS version (4.4), it didn't work so I decided to use Netctl and its app wifi-menu (in place of NetworkManager and its nm-applet), this worked (didn't try to run it on Linux 4.9 though).

[karthicraghupathi]

@ArnaudX

FWIW, I'm using this on Debian Stretch. The NM applet could not detect any Wi-Fi networks. I just chose the "Connect To Hidden Network" option and plugged in the name of the Wi-Fi network along with the password and I was able to succesfully connect and use the device.