Pi zero W with Picore 7.0 - how do i get broadcom firmware?

[Juanito]

The firmware extension for piCore 7.x armv7 is firmware-brcmfmac43430, no?

[bmarkus]

Most likely you need not only the driver but the latest boot loader flies, latest kernel and overlay. I kindly advice to drop piCore-7.0 with the new board and go for 9.0

[Paul_123]

Correct, new boot loader files are needed.

[pieric]

Hi,

I just gave it a try with piCore 9.0b1 on my zero w. Unfortunately wifi still seems not to work. I did install firmware and wifi extension.
On my pi3 everything works perfectly. I recognized on my zero that "brcmfmac" is not listed on execution of "lsmod" - while it is with my pi3.

Is there still a driver/module missing? Or was I mssing something oO

BR
eric

[bmarkus]

Wait for piCore-9.0beta2 which comes with 4.9.17 kernel. It has support for Zero W

[gavinmc42]

Cool, will wait, impatiently

Going to have Pi camera support too?

[pieric]

Sounds good, indeeed. Looking forward.

BR
eric

[gavinmc42]

Got camera going but WiFi is a no go.

Used this firmware which worked on the same card for a Pi3
firmware-rpi3-wireless.tcz

Is there a different firmware for the Zero W?
Using 9.0beta3, 4.9.22-piCore.