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Offline labeas

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MINIMAL wifi ?
« on: December 07, 2019, 09:51:00 AM »
In other fora where users who've discovered the elCheapo quadcoreAtom laptps,
some say they'll just buy plug-in-dongles to get wifi capabilities.
After overcome-ing the UEFI <WinTel lockout> problem,
there are multiple other quirks.
Trying to integrate a complex GUI wifi facility is not practical.
What is needed is a script which confirms each stage of the chain.
In old-fashion-TV-diagnoses terms:
 confirm mains-light on > confirm signal output RF-stage, per tuning >
 confirm output IF-stage ..>.. confirm output Audio-stage ...>
This could/should be able to run on the least complex TC <model>.
Is it true that <rtl7823bs> wifi drivers were no available at the date
of Ver7.2 TC ?


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Re: MINIMAL wifi ?
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2019, 10:34:51 PM »
Is it true that <rtl7823bs> wifi drivers were no available at the date

Do you mean rtl7823bs or rtl8723bs?

There's an rtl8723bs driver in staging in 4.19 (tc-10.x)
« Last Edit: December 07, 2019, 10:39:41 PM by Juanito »

Offline labeas

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Re: MINIMAL wifi ?
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2019, 06:07:46 AM »
Juanito wrote:
> There's an rtl8723bs driver in staging in 4.19 (tc-10.x)
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I don't undersatnd what that means.
Please provide a URL to `wget`.

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Re: MINIMAL wifi ?
« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2019, 06:12:54 AM »
Staging means testing, so it was not compiled for tinycore.