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Offline piran

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Pi Zero 2 W core 15 wifi
« on: December 03, 2024, 12:40:04 PM »
Hi, newbie here. Just trying to get Tiny core running on my Pi Zero. I've followed some of the posts on here:
https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,26659.0.html
https://gist.github.com/BillyNate/13732d02c41378f1c630fa914fe63378

and dug around some but I can't get it working :(
uname -r gives 6.6.47-piCore-v8
I've been downloading from http://tinycorelinux.net/15.x/aarch64/tcz/ (which is the same branch that I got the img file from)
I have installed:
wifi.tcz
wireless-6.6.47-piCore-v8.tcz
wireless_tools.tcz
wpa_supplicant.tcz
firmware-rpi-wifi.tcz
firmware-rtlwifi.tcz

I've added firmware-rpi-wifi.tcz and wifi.tcz to the onboot.lst

but if I do sudo wifi.sh it tells me that there are  "No wifi devices found!"

What am I doing wrong?
Thanks

Offline Paul_123

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Re: Pi Zero 2 W core 15 wifi
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2024, 01:29:20 PM »
Have you read the last section of the announcement post>

Although that issue normally doesn't cause a problem until after you make a wifi connection.

what does dmesg tell you?   look near the end of the output

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Re: Pi Zero 2 W core 15 wifi
« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2024, 01:30:57 PM »
Hi piran
Welcome to the forum.

For wifi.tcz you should have all of these in your tce/optional directory:
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wifi.tcz
wifi.tcz.md5.txt
wifi.tcz.dep
wireless_tools.tcz
wireless_tools.tcz.md5.txt
wireless_tools.tcz.dep
wireless-6.6.47-piCore-v8.tcz
wireless-6.6.47-piCore-v8.tcz.md5.txt
wireless-6.6.47-piCore-v8.tcz.dep
regdb.tcz
regdb.tcz.md5.txt
wpa_supplicant.tcz
wpa_supplicant.tcz.md5.txt
wpa_supplicant.tcz.dep
libnl.tcz
libnl.tcz.md5.txt
openssl.tcz
openssl.tcz.md5.txt
openssl.tcz.dep
ca-certificates.tcz
ca-certificates.tcz.md5.txt
readline.tcz
readline.tcz.md5.txt
readline.tcz.dep
ncurses.tcz
ncurses.tcz.md5.txt

Offline piran

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Re: Pi Zero 2 W core 15 wifi
« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2024, 01:37:43 PM »
Thanks for the replies.
I managed to get it to connect - turns out that I rebooted at the wrong point :)
went through again without rebooting and it allowed me to connect.
Now I need to work out how to get it to connect on boot
and what packages I need to get a gui going.

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Re: Pi Zero 2 W core 15 wifi
« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2024, 11:20:07 PM »
Hi piran
... and what packages I need to get a gui going.
Once you have an Internet connection, you can:
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tce-load -wi Xorg flwm_topside wbar aterm
startx

Offline patrikg

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Re: Pi Zero 2 W core 15 wifi
« Reply #5 on: December 04, 2024, 03:37:50 AM »
And run filetool to store picore state, so if you reboot all settings and stored files will be restored.
You can read about how TC works in the TC Book.
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filetool.sh -bv
TC Core Book
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http://tinycorelinux.net/corebook.pdf

Offline piran

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Re: Pi Zero 2 W core 15 wifi
« Reply #6 on: December 04, 2024, 04:41:27 AM »
Hi piran
... and what packages I need to get a gui going.
Once you have an Internet connection, you can:
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tce-load -wi Xorg flwm_topside wbar aterm
startx
Thank you, worked a treat

Offline piran

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Re: Pi Zero 2 W core 15 wifi
« Reply #7 on: December 04, 2024, 04:43:11 AM »
And run filetool to store picore state, so if you reboot all settings and stored files will be restored.
You can read about how TC works in the TC Book.
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filetool.sh -bv
TC Core Book
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http://tinycorelinux.net/corebook.pdf
Thanks, I've been working my way through the book although much of the install is based on the GUI which you don't get with the Raspberry pi install.

filetool.sh didn't help with the wifi though.

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Re: Pi Zero 2 W core 15 wifi
« Reply #8 on: December 04, 2024, 06:23:19 AM »
If you search a little bit in this forum I think you could get a answer to how to store the wifi settings.

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Re: Pi Zero 2 W core 15 wifi
« Reply #9 on: December 04, 2024, 07:13:07 AM »
If you search a little bit in this forum I think you could get a answer to how to store the wifi settings.
Thanks, I've tried:
https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,12441.0.html

turns out that it's not wifi.sh auto it's wifi.sh -a

sorted now  :) thanks