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Wifi Setup on a HP Laptop running TinyCore 11.1 (64 bit)

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RYTCL:
I booted into UBUNTU and here is the network related information

lshw -C network


/root # lshw -C network

  *-network                 
       description: Wireless interface
       product: RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
       vendor: Ralink corp.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       logical name: wlp2s0f0
       version: 00
       serial: 74:29:af:24:3b:87
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800pci driverversion=5.4.0-53-generic firmware=0.37 ip=192.168.1.44 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
       resources: irq:17 memory:90710000-9071ffff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
       logical name: enp4s0
       version: 07
       serial: 38:63:bb:e6:a7:e0
       size: 100Mbit/s
       capacity: 100Mbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 duplex=full firmware=rtl8106e-1_0.0.1 06/29/12 ip=192.168.1.43 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
       resources: irq:19 ioport:1000(size=256) memory:90500000-90500fff memory:90400000-90403fff


It clearly shows rt2800pci is the correct driver  and not hp_wireless.

Rich:
Hi RYTCL

--- Quote from: RYTCL on November 25, 2020, 05:51:21 PM --- ... 2 ERROR lines related to rtl_nic persists. ...
--- End quote ---
You can ignore them. It just means it didn't find the firmware in the first place it looked.

--- Quote --- ... 'unable to load firmware' error has disappeared. ...
--- End quote ---
That means it found the firmware.


--- Quote from: RYTCL on November 25, 2020, 06:11:02 PM --- ... May be some other driver(s) are conflicting with my WiFi card "Ralink RT3290 - rt2800pci " ...
--- End quote ---
No.


--- Quote from: RYTCL on November 25, 2020, 07:26:08 PM --- ... It clearly shows rt2800pci is the correct driver ...
--- End quote ---
That only tells half of the story. Here's part of the config file for our kernel:

--- Code: ---CONFIG_RT2800PCI=m
CONFIG_RT2800PCI_RT33XX=y
# CONFIG_RT2800PCI_RT35XX is not set
# CONFIG_RT2800PCI_RT53XX is not set
# CONFIG_RT2800PCI_RT3290 is not set
--- End code ---
It shows:
1. The rt2800pci was compiled as a loadable module.
2. The rt2800pci has  rt33xx  chipset support compiled in.
3. The rt2800pci does not have  rt35xx  chipset support compiled in.
4. The rt2800pci does not have  rt53xx  chipset support compiled in.
5. The rt2800pci does not have  rt3290  chipset support compiled in.

The only way to fix that is to reconfigure and recompile the kernel and recompile the driver.

Juanito:
That's unfortunate - it means that you would need to replace the rt2800pci driver in the wireless-KERNEL extension rather than creating an additional extension.

RYTCL:
Thank you Rich, Juanito, Curaga and everyone trying to help.

Does this mean,  WiFi support for my laptop hardware may be in a future release.

I do have development experience in my past life (10+ years ago).  I will be available, if I  could be of any help.

Juanito:
You would need to do something like this:
--- Code: ---$ tce-load -i compiletc ncursesw-dev elfutils-dev bc perl5
$ wget http://tinycorelinux.net/11.x/x86_64/release/src/kernel/linux-5.4.3-patched.txz
$ wget http://tinycorelinux.net/11.x/x86_64/release/src/kernel/config-5.4.3-tinycore64
$ tar xf linux-5.4.3-patched.txz
$ cd linux-5.4.3
$ make mrproper
$ cp ../config-5.4.3-tinycore64 ./.config
$ make oldconfig
$ make menuconfig

Device Drivers -->
   Network device support -->
      Wireless LAN -->
         Ralink driver support -->
[*] rt2800pci - Include support for rt3290 devices (EXPERIMENTAL)

$ make modules
--- End code ---

..and then over-write the rt2800pci.ko driver in wireless-5.4.3-tinycore64.tcz with the one compiled above.

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