I jumped for joy at the release of Multicore 4.0 and the prospects that it presented. My thoughts had zero reservations about any connection issues concerning the newest version as I'd had no problem connecting to wifi in 3.8 and earlier. However the situation remains that Multicore 4.0 will not detect my wireless adapter.
Here is the read out of Lsmod:
ar9170usb 42262 0
mac80211 99898 1 ar9170usb
led_class 1733 1 ar9170usb
ath 6106 1 ar9170usb
cfg80211 90319 3 ar9170usb,mac80211,ath
usb_storage 29717 0
usbhid 18009 0
usbcore 91279 6 ar9170usb,usb_storage,usbhid,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
I looked through the wireless drivers included with the newest release and ar9170 was one of them. However I paid a visit to Linux wireless and learned that Ar9170 is no longer supported by Linux kernel 3.0. The most update and functioning driver for Ath9170 cards is Carl9170. That was the error that I thought I'd bring to all of your attention. Unfortunately until a carl9170 driver module is built for the next update of Tiny Core, I'm locked out from using it.