To uninstall, go to Start > Programs > NETGEAR A6210 > Uninstall NETGEAR A6210. Do not insert the A6210 adapter until drivers are installed or instructed by on-screen instructions. If you want to install the adapter drivers including the NETGEAR utility (Genie), run A6210_1.0.0.32.exe. And follow the on-screen install instructions.
This driver supports Ralink / Mediatek mt766u, mt7632u and mt7612u chipsets.
In particular, the driver supports several USB dongles such as Netgear-A6210,ASUS USB-AC55, ASUS USB-N53 and EDUP EP-AC1601.
To build the driver, follow these steps:
The driver is mostly tested on 64 bit Ubuntu 15.10 and Debian 8.3 with NETGEAR AC1200High Gain Wifi USB Adapter.Some other distro/dongle combinations work as well, for exampleLinux Mint 17.3 'Rosa' - KDE (32-bit)/ASUS USB-N53 seems to work flawlessly(as reported by Roland Bauer).
The supported chipsets can be present in other devices. To include additionaldevices, you need to add corresponding VendorID, DeviceID into the file'rtusb_dev_id.c'
The original code was downloaded from:http://cdn-cw.mediatek.com/Downloads/linux/MT7612U_DPO_LinuxSTA_3.0.0.1_20140718.tar.bz2
This is work in progress. The driver is functional. However, there are stillseveral issues that need to be addressed. In particular, hot-unplugging maycause the network manager to become unreliable. After plugging the dongle back in,you may need to restart the manager:
This seems to be Linux distro dependent, but definitely observed on Ubuntu.
At present, there is no LED support yet (Netgear-A6210 does not haveany LEDs, but other dongles do).
EDUP EP-AC1601 works (or to be precise, should work), but at present there areseveral problems such as frequent dropping of connection, failure to connect, wildlyoscillating signal strength etc. This also seems to depent on the Linux distroa lot.
DKMS Install
On Debian-based distros, you can add the module to DKMS so it will automaticallybuild and install on each successive kernel upgrade. To do this, issue the followingcommands from within the repo's folder:
To remove: