Tiny Core Linux

Tiny Core Base => TCB Tips & Tricks => Topic started by: StefanSch on January 24, 2012, 12:59:34 PM

Title: How to determine which firmware to keep?
Post by: StefanSch on January 24, 2012, 12:59:34 PM

I am booting successfully into TinyCore with working Wifi. Since I want to optimize for size, I tried to figure out which firmware*.tczs  I could actually remove! How would I do that?

I started out with removing all, but obviously I need some, since that did not work...

Title: Re: How to determine which firmware to keep?
Post by: Juanito on January 24, 2012, 01:05:26 PM

If you look in dmesg it sometimes says which firmware is being loaded

Title: Re: How to determine which firmware to keep?
Post by: Rich on January 24, 2012, 01:07:05 PM

Hi StefanSch
Open the  ControlPanel  and click on  System Stats. Click on the  dmesg  tab and scroll down until
you find the message that says that it's loading firmware for your card, it should be near the bottom.
That should tell you which file is being loaded.