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HOWTO: Install and tweak Tiny Core for Dell mini-9

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tinypoodle:
You do not appear to have any wireless interface.
You will need to load a driver suitable for your chipset and possibly firmware, depending on chipset.

linuxnovo:
there was a little confusion because my original post was from another whole string.

Read from the top of the thread and you will find the original post.  It is this post that I refer to as an "article".  You will find it in this forum.  I must have forgotten that this post was split from another long thread by the administrator.  Sorry about that.......context is meaning!

To continue:  Yes, you are right I must load and activate a driver for my netbook.

using lshw, on the Mint side, I get the following information on the net card used:

*-network
                description: Wireless interface
                product: BCM4312 802.11b/g
                vendor: Broadcom Corporation
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
                logical name: eth1
                version: 01
                serial: 00:23:08:4f:95:d0
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
                configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl0 driverversio
I don't think broadcom supports linux at all with drivers.  So it looks like an ndiswrapper thing?????

I have had alot of problems with broadcom products in the past.



 

linuxnovo:
Just found what I think is the thread:

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=3611.0

Thanks for your interest

tinypoodle:
Ah, ok, now that makes it much more clear...

You might have overlooked a part in that article:


--- Quote --- (NOTE: "root (0x80,0)" is the sda1  partition on my Eee 900 and it is used in each of the other three grub entries for the standard Xandros installation. If the boot partition is described in some other way on your machine, then use that designation. For example, on some hard drives it is "root (hd0,0)". Use whatever is the standard for your other grub items.)
--- End quote ---

That is why after you adapted the values to your needs it works now  ;)

tinypoodle:

--- Quote from: linuxnovo on December 08, 2010, 06:56:33 AM ---
                product: BCM4312 802.11b/g
                vendor: Broadcom Corporation
           
I don't think broadcom supports linux at all with drivers.  So it looks like an ndiswrapper thing?????

I have had alot of problems with broadcom products in the past.

--- End quote ---

Do searches for 'Broadcom' and 'BCM4312' in forum, as well as in appbrowser.
IIRC that one might require firmware, besides from a driver.

IMHO ndiswrapper is a method of last resort, or a temporary measure, kind of "better than nothing".

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