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Tiny Core Base => Raspberry Pi => Topic started by: sixgunz on December 09, 2015, 11:55:40 AM

Title: wifi offline install?
Post by: sixgunz on December 09, 2015, 11:55:40 AM

Hi.

What would be the best way to install wifi on either an A+ or Zero?  Obviously, they have no ethernet, so the images don't come preloaded with them  ;)

I'm assuming install wifi.tcz, <whichever firmware>.tcz from a USB stick, but are there any other deps or is wfi.tcz standalone?

Also, could someone remind me of the switches to load tcz from local?  I think it's -wi or something like that?


Cheers,

Glenn.

Title: Re: wifi offline install?
Post by: Paul_123 on December 09, 2015, 12:15:57 PM

easiest would be to setup the SD card on a B/B+, and then move the card and wifi stick over to the A or zero.

The dependencies are listed in a separate file.  So for wifi.tcz, the dependencies are in wifi.tcz.dep    Dependencies are cascaded..... which is why I suggested the above.

tce-load -i extension.tcz   loads from local.    But in your case, you would just download all of the required extensions manually, then place wifi.tcz in the onboot.lst

Title: Re: wifi offline install?
Post by: sixgunz on December 09, 2015, 12:58:22 PM

Hi Paul

Thanks for that.  Yep, that was what I was doing, just wondered if there was a better way.

What I might do is record the deps as they are downloaded and copy them to a new location.

Cheers.

Title: Re: wifi offline install?
Post by: Rich on December 09, 2015, 01:14:31 PM

Hi sixgunz

Quote from: Paul_123 on December 09, 2015, 12:15:57 PM

The dependencies are listed in a separate file.  So for wifi.tcz, the dependencies are in wifi.tcz.dep    Dependencies are cascaded.....

If you get the  wifi.tcz.tree  file, all the dependencies are listed in it.