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Juanito:
CorePlus iso reposted

@coreplayer2, could you check that we have all of the required wifi firmware extensions please?

coreplayer2:

--- Quote from: Juanito on July 30, 2017, 06:22:42 AM ---@coreplayer2, could you check that we have all of the required wifi firmware extensions please?

--- End quote ---
Standby please..

Juanito:
..in the newly posted CorePlus iso I mean

coreplayer2:
In my opinion, these firmware extensions are most important, categorized under WIFI, NIC (many are 10ge), and CPU code.


--- Code: ---WIFI
firmware
firmware-atheros
firmware-broadcom_bcm43xx
firmware-getB43
 + deps
   squashfs-tools
   b43-fwcutter
firmware-ipw2100
firmware-ipw2200
firmware-iwimax
firmware-iwl8000
firmware-iwlwifi
firmware-libertas
firmware-mrvl
firmware-mwl8k
firmware-openfwwf
firmware-ralinkwifi
firmware-rtlwifi
firmware-ti-connectivity
firmware-zd1211

NIC
firmware-broadcom_bnx2
firmware-broadcom_bnx2x
firmware-chelsio
firmware-intel_e100
firmware-myri10ge
firmware-netxen
firmware-rtl_nic
firmware-tigon
firmware-vxge

Processor
firmware-amd-ucode

--- End code ---


Here is the firmware list from the latest coreplus_v8.1 rc1.  I have marked those firmware extensions which do not belong under a WiFi list, either because they are redundant or belong to an Ethernet category, or pose high degree of difficulty to get working (firmware-ueagle-atm.tcz in that regard).

--- Quote ---firmware-atheros.tcz
firmware-broadcom_bcm43xx.tcz
firmware-broadcom_bnx2.tcz
firmware-broadcom_bnx2x.tcz
firmware-getB43.tcz
firmware-ipw2100.tcz
firmware-ipw2200.tcz
firmware-iwimax.tcz
firmware-iwl8000.tcz
firmware-iwlwifi.tcz
firmware-libertas.tcz
firmware-mrvl.tcz
firmware-mwl8k.tcz
firmware-myri10ge.tcz
firmware-netxen.tcz
firmware-openfwwf.tcz
firmware-radeon.tcz
firmware-ralinkwifi.tcz
firmware-rtl8192ce_se_de.tcz
firmware-rtlwifi.tcz
firmware-ti-connectivity.tcz
firmware-ueagle-atm.tcz
firmware-vxge.tcz
firmware-zd1211.tcz
firmware.tcz
--- End quote ---

coreplayer2:
Regarding WiFi there is a bigger issue..

the RTLWIFI modules in:
wireless-4.8.17-tinycore.tcz &
wireless-4.8.17-tinycore64.tcz

call the wrong firmware (among other issues) and cause mayhem when the kernel attempts to load them.

I created a temporary fix by way of an extension containing the latest compiled corrected modules, at least until the next TC version, or we update the above wireless extensions.

This obviously begs the question, how do we resolve this issue with coreplus?

We can either:
1. update the above wireless extensions, (need to advise curaga for this) or
2. separate the above wireless extensions from "wireless_tools.tcz.dep" and add a boot stanza and xrbase.lst (onboot.lst) in coreplus.iso for rtlwifi which includes rtlwifi-4.8.17-tinycore.tcz instead of wireless-4.8.17-tinycore.tcz

suggestions?

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