Sunday, August 30, 2020

WiFi backports Driver

 WiFi backports Driver (Open Source Driver for WiFi)


Here we are going to learn Building backports driver for ath10k.backports  is open source driver which have many WiFi chip-set support with basic WiFi functionality. 

1. Download the backport using below link base on your kernel version:(Get kernel version using "uname -a" command)
https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/backports/stable/

2. Extract driver using below command: 
tar -xzvf backports-5.8-rc2-1.tar.gz

3. Go inside the directory
cd backports-5.8-rc2-1

4. Execute below command to hceck supported chipset by this driver 
make defconfig-help

5. Configure the driver for ath10k.
make defconfig-ath10k

6. Build driver using below command.
make

7. Now you can fine driver module using "find . -name *.ko" command.

NOTE:
Make sure backport driver version always greater than or equal to kernel version.
  

 

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