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Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: andreami on January 13, 2014, 12:21:47 PM

Title: How to install drivers from a CD
Post by: andreami on January 13, 2014, 12:21:47 PM: Hi everyone!

I recently bought the WL300G, an USB Wireless-N Adapter. I want to use it to connect my old NEC Versa Note VX to the internet, but I need to install drivers from the CD... How to do it?

Thank you in advance
Title: Re: How to install drivers from a CD
Post by: gerald_clark on January 13, 2014, 02:55:26 PM: Does the NIC work when you boot from the CD?
If so:
Boot from your USB/HD drive.
Mount youe CD.
Copy the files from cde/optional on the CD to your tce/optional.
copy the onboot.lst from the cde directory on the CD to your tce directory.
You can reboot and fine tune your onboot.lst to only include the extensions you need/want.
Title: Re: How to install drivers from a CD
Post by: andreami on January 20, 2014, 01:09:07 PM: I mounted the CD but when I copied the files into my /home directory the terminal closed suddenly and the whole system was so slow that you couldn't do anything, so i rebooted it. Then the pc was fine but the files of the CD were not copied..

The content of the mounted CD is:

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Ralink & Realtek_User Guide/ Ralink 2070 3070 3072 5370 5372/ Realtek8187L 2000 XP/ Realtek8187L Linux/ Realtek8187L MacOS/ Realtek8187L Vista Win7/ Realtek8188CU/ Realtek8188SU 8191SU/ SIL3114/ SIL3114R/ Thumbs.db autorun.apm autorun.exe autorun.inf win-driver/
I tried to view the content of these directories but i couldn't
Title: Re: How to install drivers from a CD
Post by: gerald_clark on January 20, 2014, 01:22:11 PM: You don't install drivers from foreign CDs.
You need to use the drivers on the CorePlus CD or from the Core repos.

As I said.\, if the NIC works when you boot from the CD ( that means the CorePlus CD )
Copy the files from the cde directory on the CD to the tce directory on your hard drive.
Title: Re: How to install drivers from a CD
Post by: andreami on January 21, 2014, 08:58:49 AM: What do you mean by NIC? The network card of the PC or the USB wireless adapter? How to control if it works when i boot from the CorePlus CD?