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Tiny Core Base => TCB Talk => Topic started by: chopper on July 05, 2011, 08:18:27 AM

Title: atmel firmware for wireless card on thinkpad t23
Post by: chopper on July 05, 2011, 08:18:27 AM

Hi guys,

I have jsut installed TC on a thinkpad T23. When I do:

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ifconfig eth1 up
I get a message about File or Directory Not Found.

Looking at dmesg it seems it cant find the firmware files. I have got the firmware files from my zenwalk installation on the same computer, they live in /lib/firmware/atmel___2asdgf43r863t4f7gwasdferfgf7g57fqg54rf9___.bin on there.

Im not sure where I need to put them on TinyCore so that they will be loaded when the wireless interface is started.

Many thanks.

Title: Re: atmel firmware for wireless card on thinkpad t23
Post by: Juanito on July 05, 2011, 08:35:46 AM

Quote from: chopper on July 05, 2011, 08:18:27 AM

I have got the firmware files from my zenwalk installation on the same computer, they live in /lib/firmware/atmel___2asdgf43r863t4f7gwasdferfgf7g57fqg54rf9___.bin on there.

You can put them in either the same place or in /usr/local/the same place

Title: Re: atmel firmware for wireless card on thinkpad t23
Post by: chopper on July 05, 2011, 09:16:49 AM

Hi Juanito, many thanks, putting them in /lib/firmware has worked.

Ive got a file called net.sh that I run from bootlocal.sh to bring the network up etc. I have now put a couple of lines to copy the files from /my/hard/drive/atmel_whatever.bin to /lib/firmware/ and this seems to work... It should be ok copying them when bootlocal.sh runs shouldnt it ?

Title: Re: atmel firmware for wireless card on thinkpad t23
Post by: Juanito on July 05, 2011, 09:22:51 AM

You can copy them using bootlocal.sh, but since the firmware does not change, the best thing to do is to make your own private firmware extension and load it "onboot".

See http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:creating_extensions

Title: Re: atmel firmware for wireless card on thinkpad t23
Post by: chopper on July 05, 2011, 05:48:59 PM

Cool & thanks for that link and the help, the .tcz is working  8)