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I'm trying to increase the signal strength of my wifi and this code appears when trying to make:

spectre@spectre-HP-Stream-Notebook-PC-13:~/Desktop/rtlwifi_new-master$ make
make -C /lib/modules/4.15.0-36-generic/build M=/home/spectre/Desktop/rtlwifi_new-master modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.15.0-36-generic'
  CC [M]  /home/spectre/Desktop/rtlwifi_new-master/base.o
cc1: error: code model kernel does not support PIC mode
scripts/Makefile.build:332: recipe for target '/home/spectre/Desktop/rtlwifi_new-master/base.o' failed
make[2]: *** [/home/spectre/Desktop/rtlwifi_new-master/base.o] Error 1
Makefile:1551: recipe for target '_module_/home/spectre/Desktop/rtlwifi_new-master' failed
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/spectre/Desktop/rtlwifi_new-master] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.15.0-36-generic'
Makefile:58: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

I have also already installed linux-headers-4.15.0-36-generic and make. Anyone have suggestions, for I've been away from Ubuntu for a while?

filbranden
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I just downloaded the rtlwifi_new-master.zip from here and did a make, and it all worked fine.

I suspect that you might not have read the README.md file where it calls out some pre-requisite apps, so do...

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic build-essential git dkms

Also note that this is a dkms driver, so the proper way to install it is to install dkms, then do...

sudo cp {the source code folder} to /usr/src
sudo dkms add...
sudo dkms build...
sudo dkms install...
dkms status

type man dkms for help.

heynnema
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