Extensions for MacBooks?

[Zendrael]

Hi all!

So, finally I got our super distro TC (CorePlus 4.5.6) booting and running in a MacBook Air mid 2011! But I have a lot of issues with which extensions to load... What are the best extensions to get the most of the hardware working?

Here is what I need (which I could not get working):

- Wi-Fi (which doesn't worked out of the box even with TC+...)
- MultiTouch trackpad and Gestures
- Keyboard backlights and special keys (like to adjust volume)
- Camera
- Brightness sensor (of the display)
- Bluetooth

Maybe if I got everything working I will remaster a "Mac Core Plus" to be used by other crazy people like me!

Note that I am familiar with *nix - I just couldn't find the right way to make TC full functional on the MB Air as Ubuntu 12.04 does. (and I understand how different they are)

Thanks for your attention and sorry about my english!

Best regards!

[Rich]

Hi Zendrael
I don't know anything about Macs, but I will offer a few suggestions to try to help you get more functionality out
of that Mac. Since you say Ubuntu enables functions you are interested in, boot it up and gather some information
from it. For starters I would suggest:
1. ps -aux > ps.txt
2. lsmod > modules.txt
3. If Ubuntu is running Xorg, find your xorg.conf file.
Save the above files where you will be able to access them when you reboot with Tinycore. Before creating the
files in 1 and 2, make sure you start some apps that use the wifi, camera, bluetooth, and any other peripherals
you are trying to enable.

[curaga]

- Wi-Fi, bluetooth, camera

These may or may not be supported, it could be missing firmware too. Please post dmesg from TC.

- MultiTouch trackpad and Gestures

Those aren't yet standard even in the latest upstream packages. What Ubuntu is shipping is their own hack.

- Keyboard backlights and special keys (like to adjust volume)
- Brightness sensor (of the display)

Those may already be working, or may need a newer kernel, given your machine is newer than the 3.0 release. Note that "sensors working" means just that, that they are supplying data - to make decisions on that, like dimming the display by the ambient sensor, you need a daemon or scripts.

[Juanito]

So, finally I got our super distro TC (CorePlus 4.5.6) booting and running in a MacBook Air mid 2011! But I have a lot of issues with which extensions to load... What are the best extensions to get the most of the hardware working?

Here is what I need (which I could not get working):

- Wi-Fi (which doesn't worked out of the box even with TC+...)
...
- Bluetooth

I needed to use compat-wireless to get the broadcom wireless working on my mac mini, what hardware do you have?

With the latest bluez extension, things work for me with a mac mini. Maybe you could run the daemon manually (sudo bluetooth -nd) to look for error messages