Tp-Link TL-WN822N V5 [4/19] Compile the driver

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

1. Development Environment

The development environment in Ubuntu is required as follows:

Development Environment

OS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Kernel version 4.13.0-36-generic

Gcc version 5.4.0

2. Compile the Driver

2.1. Compilation tool and kernel sources

Before you compile the driver, please make sure you have the correct compile tool and

kernel sources. In Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, we can install compile tool gcc by command “apt-get

install gcc”

$ apt-get install gcc

Note: We recommend you install the same version tool to compile the driver.

For example:

According to the command “cat /proc/version”, you could see your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

system is compiled by gcc5.4.0. By default, gcc5.4.0 is already installed in Ubuntu 16.04

LTS, you could use gcc5.4.0 to compile the driver directly.

Generally, compatible kernel headers are already built in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, so you don’t

need to separately download and compile the kernel sources. However, if no related

kernel headers are integrated in your system, please install the kernel sources first.

2.2. Compile the Driver

Use Terminal to go to the driver directory and run the following commands to compile the

driver.

$ make clean

$ make

After compiling, you can see a name of the chip.ko file is stored in the directory of the

driver.