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andrusha7778
Sep 15, 2026Follower
Looking for ReadyNAS OS 6.10.8 / 6.10.9 GPL kernel source for RN214
Looking for ReadyNAS OS 6.10.8 / 6.10.9 GPL kernel source for RN214 (Linux 4.4.218.alpine.1)
Hello,
I am working on adding support for a Realtek RTL8156 USB 2.5GbE adapter to a NETGEAR ReadyNAS 214 running ReadyNAS OS 6.10.10.
The NAS is using:
- Kernel: 4.4.218.alpine.1
- Architecture: ARMv7 / Annapurna Labs Alpine
- ReadyNAS OS: 6.10.10
- USB adapter: Realtek RTL8156, USB ID 0bda:8156
- The standard vanilla Linux 4.4.218 source tree is not sufficient. The ReadyNAS kernel contains a substantial NETGEAR/Annapurna patch set, including Alpine PCIe, AHCI, Ethernet, DMA, thermal, crypto, ReadyNAS platform, and Btrfs modifications. A test build against vanilla 4.4.218 produced thousands of symbol CRC mismatches, including core USB and networking APIs, so I do not want to force-load an unsafe module.
The official NETGEAR GPL download links for these source archives now return HTTP 404:
ReadyNASOS_V6.10.9_WW_src.zip
ReadyNASOS_V6.10.8_WW_src.zip
If anyone still has a local copy, could you please share one of the following?
- Preferred: ReadyNASOS_V6.10.9_WW_src.zip or ReadyNASOS_V6.10.10_WW_src.zip
- ReadyNASOS_V6.10.8_WW_src.zip
- If the full archive is too large, just the ARM / Annapurna Alpine Linux 4.4.218 kernel source directory, typically something similar to:
linux-4.4.218-alpine/ - If available, any of these files from the original kernel build would also be extremely useful:
- .config
- Module.symvers
- System.map
- vmlinux
I specifically need the NETGEAR/Annapurna-patched kernel sources for 4.4.218.alpine.1, not the vanilla kernel.org source.
My goal is only to build a compatible external r8152.ko module for RTL8156.
If someone has the GPL archive but cannot host the full file publicly, even just the linux-4.4.218-alpine source directory would be enough.
Thank you very much.
1 Reply
- portalmanAspirant
I have 6.10.9 of that file
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