netowrk-manager tcz in the latest is missing

[mbivol10]

I want to connect to wifi through network manager but I noticed its not in the latest tcz repo.

[mbivol10]

Also:

sudo wifi.sh
No wifi devices found!

On a raspberry pi 3b+

I installed:

firmware-brcmwifi.tcz
firmware-rpi-bt.tcz
firmware-rpi-wifi.tcz

[Paul_123]

You need the kernel modules for WiFi,

wireless-<kernel>.tcz

wireless-tools.tcz, and wpa_supplicant.tcz too

[Rich]

Hi mbivol10
When you installed  wifi.tcz , these extensions should also have been installed:
http://tinycorelinux.net/13.x/armv7/tcz/wifi.tcz.tree

[Juanito]

I want to connect to wifi through network manager but I noticed its not in the latest tcz repo.

The networkmanager extension is present in the repo http://tinycorelinux.net/13.x/armv7/tcz/networkmanager.tcz.info

[mbivol10]

tc@box:~$ tce-load -wi wireless_tools wireless-5.10.39-piCore-v8 wpa_supplicant
wireless_tools is already installed!
wireless-5.10.39-piCore-v8 is already installed!
wpa_supplicant is already installed!

network-manager is not available in the aarch64 repo

[Juanito]

If you feel up to it, the build notes for networkmanager are here:

http://tinycorelinux.net/11.x/armv7/tcz/src/networkmanager/compile_networkmanager

You would need to substitute "-march=armv8-a+crc -mtune=cortex-a72" for "-march=armv6zk -mtune=arm1176jzf-s -mfpu=vfp"

[mbivol10]

Thank you, now that I have network manager its easier to set up my network. However no wifi still.

[Juanito]

Are you trying to use the built in wifi in your RPi3/4?

[Greg Erskine]

The order you load the wifi extensions is important.

You need to load the firmware extensions first.

[mbivol10]

pi 3

[Juanito]

If you reboot and then load:

1. firmware-rpi-wifi
2. wireless-5.10.39-piCore-v8

..dmesg should indicate that the wireless driver loaded the wifi firmware.

[Paul_123]

aarch64 on a pi3 is not very well tested.   The extra overhead is really not worth it with the limited memory of a pi3.