WE866C3 Wi-Fi Network Interface Card (NIC) User Guide
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APPENDIX A: DOWNLOADING, BUILDING, AND INSTALLING
LINUX KERNEL ON X86 UBUNTU
This section provides step by step procedure to setup the host platform and install the
Linux kernel v4.9.11 required to build and use the WE866C3 Wi-Fi driver package. A host
X86 machine, is required to be installed with Linux OS 32-bit with kernel version 4.9.11.
And, the kernel v4.9.11 should be patched with the patch files provided in the driver
package.
A.1
Test Setup Preparation
Before building the kernel v4.9.11, the X86 host machine must be ready with the following
packages installed:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ncurses-dev
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install libnl-3-dev
sudo apt-get install libnl-genl-3-dev
sudo apt-get install bison
sudo apt-get install flex
A.2
Installing Linux Kernel v4.9.11
1. Before downloading the kernel, set the git credentials which will be used while
patching the kernel
git config --
global user.name “name”
git config --
global user.email “[email protected]”
2.
Download the latest stable Linux kernel from the kernel tree
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-
stable.git
3.
Enter the Linux kernel directory
cd linux-stable
4.
Get the copy of kernel version 4.9.11 into your directory
git checkout v4.9.11
5. Apply the required patches to the downloaded kernel code
git am WE866C3/drivers/patches/te-p233/v4.9.11/*.patch
6. Configure Linux Kernel by issuing the below command and enable the required
settings
make menuconfig
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