I have no clue where to put this so it’s going in the first category. Sorry in advance if this is the wrong forum.
No, I don’t have a way of tethering a mobile hotspot because I don’t have a smartphone. Even if I did I wouldn’t be wasting bandwidth anyways, I still live in the mindset of not watching videos on data whatsoever so downloading massive software packages of several hundred megabytes feels like a big waste.
No, I don’t have an ethernet cable because the wifi here is shared and I’m not going to run a god knows how long cable or pay 25 quid for a powerline adaptor. Besides powerline adaptors ■■■■ up shortwave radio if I’m not mistaken, which is not cool, even if it’s a small time hobby for just a few people, it’s something I find reasonably interesting as a concept so messing that up on people is also a no-go 
Yes, I have a USB drive with the updated driver on it from the repository on GitHub.
Can’t for the life of me figure out how to actually compile it because I don’t know if the devel repositories are kept on the DVD for whatever purpose. I’m absolutely not going to trawl around trying to compile or find packages for every single ■■■■■■■ dependency either as that’s just going to end badly, I’m using a stable version of a distro for a reason.
Sorry for being a pain in the arse about this and coming off extremely angry, but I did search around a bit and I even got a Discord (yes, I know…) friend to help look and he found nothing that could possibly hint at being able to install the devel packages offline from the DVD. (there is a DVD drive on the device in question, and given I know you can do it in Debian-based distros easily with some /etc/apt screwery that I forgot exactly about, I presume it’s possible here, even though this isn’t Debian)
Compa
(also this is the least intuitive threadmaking/login interface I have ever seen, give me phpBB/MyBB/SMF any day of the week… even bloated XenForo would be better than this! also your fallback fonts are broken on Windows)