Tiny Core Linux
dCore Import Debian Packages to Mountable SCE extensions => dCore X86 => Topic started by: kevinfish on January 07, 2016, 03:33:38 AM
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Hi, I'm trying to do this:
http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43/
It worked for tiny core but it doesn't seem to work for dCore x86
here's the notes i took that got it working on tc:
follow this carefully:
http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43/
build a tcz file with the drivers in it to be overlayed at /usr/local/lib/firmware/b43
remove all other firmware drivers
No boot blacklists necessary
name your tcz starting with AAA and put it in onboot.lst
reboot and run wifi
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Also, I can't get a desktop going (following http://tinycorelinux.net/dCore/x86/README/README-fluxbox.txt ) so I can use a gui wifi tool and wicd seems to be "blocked" plus iwconfig doesn't show the device. I'm getting the same errors in dmesg that I got in tiny core.
I don't know how to make a sce to put the firmware drivers in the sceboot.lst so they would be loaded first so I just put lib/firmware/b43 (the location of the other firmware in dCore) in the .filetool.lst file. Also, I don't know how to exclude all the other firmware from a sce. I'm basically screwed. I need newer versions of packages and other packages than tinycore provides.
Any help please?
TIA,
-Kevin
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Hi kevinfish.
To get graphics going ensure the following are in your /tce/sceboot.lst:
Xprogs
xorg-intel # substitute for your graphic hardware
fluxbox
Then also try:
uname -r # confirm kernel used
sce-import -b graphics-<your_kernel_version>-tinycore # install kernel modules for graphics
sudo reboot
Not sure wireless has to be so complicated. Did you review these wireless wiki links?
http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/dcore:system_software#wireless
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no. I'll check it out, but I was pulling my teeth to get this broadcom 4318 working in tinycore so I think I'm basically on the right track. Its possible that by getting debian based firmware it won't be hosed right out of the gate.
I just discovered the dCore plus image, so I dd'ed jessie over to my memory stick, went into fdisk and created a 2nd partition to store my tce/... stuff on, booted it. I tried to do tce-setdrive and select sda2 and it said "mount: mounting /dev/sda2 on /mnt/sda2 failed: Device or resource busy"
now I see that sda is itself mounted as a iso9660 so obviously i can't mount any partition because the whole stick is being used. Problem is there's no installer in the menus to force an install to another memory stick so I could get a partition that takes up my whole stick or have a couple partitions so I can load this up with extensions.
What am I missing?
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Not sure if this helps. USB install that i believe boots from Grub2 on a hard drive, not sure if this applies to your current setup.
http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/dcore:usb_installation_test-drive
Review wiki, see if anything useful, obviously post back if still issues.
http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/dcore:welcome
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hi kevinfish,
dCore-install and dCore-usbinstall are importable prebuilt extensions, not sure if they are included in the "plus" iso.
Happy new year to everybody!
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I tried dCore-usbinstall. Everything appeared to go correctly but when I try and boot off it it says "No boot sector on USB device."
Is there something I'm doing wrong?
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Hi kevinfish
I will try dCore-usbinstall on a pendrive and let you know.
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I was able to get it to work with dCore-install and select the 'z' option. None of the other's work.