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

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Juanito:

--- Quote from: linuxnovo on December 08, 2010, 06:56:33 AM ---I don't think broadcom supports linux at all with drivers.  So it looks like an ndiswrapper thing?????

--- End quote ---

I think the b43 module + firmware, the wl extension and the ndiswrapper extension all stand a chance of working - I have a laptop with similar hardware to this and all three options work

linuxnovo:
Have been doing some googling on the driver.  The following seemed most promising:

http://jomcode.com/fadhil/jomcode/broadcom-official-linux-driver-bcm4312/

linuxnovo:
Seems to me that the simplist solution would be the best.  The wl extention is pretty easy to impliment! The ndiswrapper is the least acceptible as was indicated.

linuxnovo:
The wifi is now functional:

the extension wl.tcz is assumed to be installed!

/boot/grub/menu.lst has added "blacklist=ssb" and "blacklist=b43"

/opt/bootlocal.sh has:

"sudo wicd-start"
"sudo iwconfig eth0 essid any"

last line changed to:

"sudo iwconfig eth1 essid any"

Now, all is well, thank God!

gerald_clark:
You do not need to use sudo in bootlocal.sh.
It is already running as root.

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