Wiki List of supported wifi devices

[DHeadshot]

I've finally managed to get working WiFi on the old laptop I mentioned on here some years back!  I found an old Linksys PCMCIA card and tried that and it worked!  I'd post the spec of it, but pccardctl claims it doesn't exist, despite it quite clearly working and lspcmcia only specifies the sockets.  Tinycore version is 6.something, kernel is 3.16.6-tinycore.

If someone can give me some alternative commands to get info I'll post whatever I can find out.

[stephanmg]

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Edimax Techonology Co., Ltd EW-7811Un 802.11n Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8188CUs] (WPA-PSK / WPA1/WPA2)
tested with

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4.19.81-piCore
By the way:

The link (list) of supported Wifi devices does not work for me.

[Leee]

Is anyone currently using a Netgear WNDA3100 v2 (USB wifi dongle with Broadcom BCM4323) with Core 14.x 32 bit?
I just acquired two of these in bunch of tech junk.  They seem to be in working condition but I can't seem to actually get them working.

I found a relevant thread here:

    https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,12910.msg73169.html#msg73169

but it's over ten years old and mentions ndiswrapper.tcz (which does not seem to be in the 14.x/x86/tcz repo).

lsusb shows the device as

    Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0846:9011 NetGear, Inc. WNDA3100v2 802.11abgn [Broadcom BCM4323]


wireless-6.1.2-tinycore.tcz provides both

    ./usr/local/lib/modules/6.1.2-tinycore/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/b43.ko.gz
and

    ./usr/local/lib/modules/6.1.2-tinycore/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/b43legacy.ko.gz

although neither of them gets loaded when the extension is loaded.  Manually loading them with modprobe doesn't seem to help.



firmware-broadcom_bcm43xx.tcz seems like it should be relevant as well

wifi.sh (from wifi.tcz) reports "no wifi devices found".

I feel like the pieces are all there but maybe I'm doing something wrong or out of order.

[Rich]

Hi Leee
A search of the Internet suggests there is no kernel support
for that device and that ndiswrapper is required.

Even with ndiswrapper some people reported they could
not get the device to work. The suggestion to switch to
a supported device came up on several occasions.

[Leee]

Thanks Rich.  I'll probably just relegate these to the "maybe Windows" heap.