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Tiny Core Base => Raspberry Pi => Topic started by: mbivol10 on August 02, 2021, 01:43:37 PM

Title: netowrk-manager tcz in the latest is missing
Post by: mbivol10 on August 02, 2021, 01:43:37 PM
I want to connect to wifi through network manager but I noticed its not in the latest tcz repo.
Title: Re: netowrk-manager tcz in the latest is missing
Post by: mbivol10 on August 02, 2021, 03:38:23 PM
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
Title: Re: netowrk-manager tcz in the latest is missing
Post by: Paul_123 on August 02, 2021, 06:37:29 PM
You need the kernel modules for WiFi,

wireless-<kernel>.tcz

wireless-tools.tcz, and wpa_supplicant.tcz too
Title: Re: netowrk-manager tcz in the latest is missing
Post by: Rich on August 02, 2021, 07:35:07 PM
Hi mbivol10
When you installed  wifi.tcz , these extensions should also have been installed:
http://tinycorelinux.net/13.x/armv7/tcz/wifi.tcz.tree
Title: Re: netowrk-manager tcz in the latest is missing
Post by: Juanito on August 03, 2021, 01:14:42 AM
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
Title: Re: netowrk-manager tcz in the latest is missing
Post by: mbivol10 on August 03, 2021, 07:52:15 AM
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
Title: Re: netowrk-manager tcz in the latest is missing
Post by: Juanito on August 03, 2021, 10:44:08 AM
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"
Title: Re: netowrk-manager tcz in the latest is missing
Post by: mbivol10 on August 03, 2021, 12:26:14 PM
Thank you, now that I have network manager its easier to set up my network. However no wifi still.
Title: Re: netowrk-manager tcz in the latest is missing
Post by: Juanito on August 03, 2021, 12:41:00 PM
Are you trying to use the built in wifi in your RPi3/4?
Title: Re: netowrk-manager tcz in the latest is missing
Post by: Greg Erskine on August 03, 2021, 01:41:05 PM
The order you load the wifi extensions is important.

You need to load the firmware extensions first.
Title: Re: netowrk-manager tcz in the latest is missing
Post by: mbivol10 on August 03, 2021, 10:15:52 PM
pi 3
Title: Re: netowrk-manager tcz in the latest is missing
Post by: Juanito on August 04, 2021, 12:34:06 AM
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.
Title: Re: netowrk-manager tcz in the latest is missing
Post by: Paul_123 on August 04, 2021, 01:32:05 PM
aarch64 on a pi3 is not very well tested.   The extra overhead is really not worth it with the limited memory of a pi3.