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I bought the Netgear A6200 USB wireless adapter, and I used WINE to run the installer from the disk that came with the adapter, but it failed part way through. Is there any way to get this to work?

thechemEnt
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With Ubuntu 14.04 I did the following steps:

sudo apt-get install ndisgtk
wget www.mediafire.com/?od9wpw6ccrnyhaa
unzip A6200_Linux_drivers.zip
sudo ndisgtk

Then when ndisgtk is running, choose the file ending in "ing" that was unzipped. It should be bcmwlhigh5.inf. Once that is installed you can select a wifi network from the Network menu-bar item.

Joel B
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Solved with https://github.com/jurobystricky/Netgear-A6210 - plug your device out before the following commands:

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

If your device was plugged in before the above steps, unplug and re-attach, the OS will detect and you should see available Wifi hotspots

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Jorge
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The solutions I found, including the ones given here, did not work for me unfortunately. Seems to be some issues with newer kernels.

However, I just found out what works for me. The following github repository contains many non-free and proprietary modules including one for the mt7662 chipset which is used in the Netgear A6200/A6210.

Had to simply clone the repository in /lib/modules/ and modprobe mt76-usb and she now works like a charm. Hope this helps those who also had trouble overlooking this simple option.

See https://github.com/NXP/linux-firmware

Jesse
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