

Installįor the purpose of this documentation, let’s assume the Ubuntu username to be user and the path to the folder where the zip file was extracted to be ~/source/dwa-125. The source code is available from Ralink, but if you have trouble finding the right part, download it from TwiCore’s mirror using this link.Įxtract the downloaded zip file to a suitable location. sudo apt-get install build-essentialįirst, get the source code. Also, if you don’t have build-essential package installed, please install it.Įnter the following command in the terminal.

To run the commands described here, you need to have sudo access. If your DLink DWA-125 stops working after a kernel upgrade, you will have to reinstall from source code, by compiling for the new kernel version. Since there is no driver available for DWA-125 on Linux, we need to compile the chipset driver from the source.

If you have recently bought a D-Link Wireless Adapter (DWA-125) for your Linux machine and wondering how to get it working, this article might help you get started.
