Hey,
I bought me a new WIFI USB Adapter the dootoper AC1200 which use the RTL88x2B according to the driver documentation. When I try compile the driver for installing it I get the error cc1: error: code model kernel does not support PIC mode. How can I solve this problem?

First of all:

Plug your device in.

Then use:

$ ubuntu-drivers --help

Did You do this?

NoNameNoBlame wrote:First of all:

Plug your device in.

Then use:

$ ubuntu-drivers --help

Did You do this?

No, I didn't. What does that?

It installs the driver from Ubuntu,
if one exists.

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If You don't know what PIC
(position independent code)
as a compile-option does, and
whether Your kernel supports it
and if yes, how it does, then:

Please ask at the Ubuntu-Forum.
They provide KDE neon's kernels and drivers.

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But, if this doesn't satisfy You, say so.

NoNameNoBlame wrote:It installs the driver from Ubuntu,
if one exists.

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If You don't know what PIC
(position independent code)
as a compile-option does, and
whether Your kernel supports it
and if yes, how it does, then:

Please ask at the Ubuntu-Forum.
They provide KDE neon's kernels and drivers.

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But, if this doesn't satisfy You, say so.

Okay just try it with ubuntu-drivers and it didn't work. So how exactly do I compile and install the driver?

I don't know.

The last Linux-kernel, I compiled was over 15 years ago.

The last kernel I compiled myself, was a BSD-kernel. Also,
many years ago.

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Follow my hint and go to the Ubuntu-forums.
And provide necessary details:

Where did You download the driver-source?
Give full location!

Did You follow the compile-instructions of the
driver's included README files? Etc.

And don't forget to provide hardware info.
Like this:

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$ lspci -vvv | grep 11

03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)


$ lspci -vvv -n | grep -A1 03:00.0

03:00.0 0280: 14e4:432b (rev 01)
        Subsystem: 106b:008e