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Offline Zendrael

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Hello!

I'm facing this problem everytime I try to load (at boot) the wl-r8712u-3.8.10-tinycore.tcz

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Firmware request failed!

As my wireless only works with it (or was working with the 3.0.21 on Core 4.7.7), I downloaded it from the repo from another machine, then copyied to the Core machine... set up to load on boot and got this message!

Loading manually says ok, but the wifi.sh does not work...

Any clues, please?

Thanks!
« Last Edit: September 17, 2013, 12:12:26 PM by Zendrael »

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Re: wl-r8712u-3.8.10-tinycore Firmware request failed! (Core 5.0)
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2013, 10:58:03 AM »
That is not firmware. That is a kernel module.
You cannot use 4.7.7 kernel modules for 5.0.

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Re: wl-r8712u-3.8.10-tinycore Firmware request failed! (Core 5.0)
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2013, 11:07:46 AM »
Hello Mr. gerald_clark!
How are you?

No, let me explain: I am using the wl-r8712u-3.8.10-tinycore.tcz on Core 5.0.

I did a clean install of the Core(Plus) 5 and had to download this extensions from another machine. Put this extension on the Core 5 machine. But it doesn't work, keeps giving me this message.

If i run dmesg, the last message about it is the one I wrote in the first post.


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Re: wl-r8712u-3.8.10-tinycore Firmware request failed! (Core 5.0)
« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2013, 11:18:54 AM »
Hi Zendrael
I think you may need  /usr/local/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin  which is in  firmware.tcz.

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Re: wl-r8712u-3.8.10-tinycore Firmware request failed! (Core 5.0)
« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2013, 11:20:15 AM »
Use the dmesg command.
You will see the message for the failed firmware load.
Note the name of the file that was not found.
Use the Apps utility to find the package that "provides" that file.

You can install the firmware.tcz package, but that is overkill.

----  Edit ----
/usr/local/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin is in firmware-rtlwifi.tcz.
« Last Edit: September 17, 2013, 11:23:31 AM by gerald_clark »

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Re: wl-r8712u-3.8.10-tinycore Firmware request failed! (Core 5.0)
« Reply #5 on: September 17, 2013, 11:56:48 AM »
Hi!

Worked after using firmware-rtlwifi.tcz loaded before wl-r8712u-3.8.10-tinycore.tcz.

I noticed that there are many extensions out of the 5.x repo, like bftp, samba, no-ip... They will work if I download from the 4.x repo? If yes, do I need to download the .dep files too?

Thanks!

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Re: wl-r8712u-3.8.10-tinycore Firmware request failed! (Core 5.0)
« Reply #6 on: September 17, 2013, 12:06:28 PM »
Hi Zendrael
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They will work if I download from the 4.x repo?
Some will and some won't. Extensions are currently being tested and migrated from 4 to 5. There is a thread on that here:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,15906.msg93578.html#msg93578

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Re: wl-r8712u-3.8.10-tinycore Firmware request failed! (Core 5.0)
« Reply #7 on: September 17, 2013, 12:11:16 PM »
Ok Rich!

Thank you!

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Re: [SOLVED] wl-r8712u-3.8.10-tinycore Firmware request failed! (Core 5.0)
« Reply #8 on: September 17, 2013, 10:52:42 PM »
The additional firmware information is listed in the wireless driver extension, with the hope that folks needing this driver would also graphic the required firmware at the same time.

I guess we could add the firmware as a dep of the driver..?


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Re: [SOLVED] wl-r8712u-3.8.10-tinycore Firmware request failed! (Core 5.0)
« Reply #9 on: September 18, 2013, 07:42:32 AM »
I think it is a good idea!