Installing driver for ar8161 on an offline machine

[mvalviar]

Hello,

I just built a new pc and it currenly has no networking as it uses Atheros AR8161.

I have a laptop running on 12.04 lts. Is there away for me to build the driver on my laptop and copy and install it to the new pc (including depenencies)?

Regards,
mvalviar

[personalpc]

on the working machine with internet:

wget -O- http://linuxwireless.org/download/co...-03-pc.tar.bz2

then copy that compat-wireless*.tar.bz2 to a usb drive

insert the install cd & usb stick into the machine that needs the drivers and run in terminal (use your thumbdrive in place of USBTHUMB):

sudo apt-get install build-essential
cd /media/USBTHUMB/
tar -x compat-wireless-2012-07-03-pc.tar.bz2
cd compat-wireless-2012-07-03-pc
./scripts/driver-select alx
make
sudo make install


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