Tiny Core Linux
Tiny Core Base => Raspberry Pi => Topic started by: mbivol10 on August 02, 2021, 01:43:37 PM
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I want to connect to wifi through network manager but I noticed its not in the latest tcz repo.
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Also:
sudo wifi.sh
No wifi devices found!
On a raspberry pi 3b+
I installed:
firmware-brcmwifi.tcz
firmware-rpi-bt.tcz
firmware-rpi-wifi.tcz
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You need the kernel modules for WiFi,
wireless-<kernel>.tcz
wireless-tools.tcz, and wpa_supplicant.tcz too
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Hi mbivol10
When you installed wifi.tcz , these extensions should also have been installed:
http://tinycorelinux.net/13.x/armv7/tcz/wifi.tcz.tree
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I want to connect to wifi through network manager but I noticed its not in the latest tcz repo.
The networkmanager extension is present in the repo http://tinycorelinux.net/13.x/armv7/tcz/networkmanager.tcz.info
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tc@box:~$ tce-load -wi wireless_tools wireless-5.10.39-piCore-v8 wpa_supplicant
wireless_tools is already installed!
wireless-5.10.39-piCore-v8 is already installed!
wpa_supplicant is already installed!
network-manager is not available in the aarch64 repo
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If you feel up to it, the build notes for networkmanager are here:
http://tinycorelinux.net/11.x/armv7/tcz/src/networkmanager/compile_networkmanager
You would need to substitute "-march=armv8-a+crc -mtune=cortex-a72" for "-march=armv6zk -mtune=arm1176jzf-s -mfpu=vfp"
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Thank you, now that I have network manager its easier to set up my network. However no wifi still.
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Are you trying to use the built in wifi in your RPi3/4?
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The order you load the wifi extensions is important.
You need to load the firmware extensions first.
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pi 3
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If you reboot and then load:
1. firmware-rpi-wifi
2. wireless-5.10.39-piCore-v8
..dmesg should indicate that the wireless driver loaded the wifi firmware.
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aarch64 on a pi3 is not very well tested. The extra overhead is really not worth it with the limited memory of a pi3.