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Tiny Core Base => TCB Talk => Topic started by: QBall on August 09, 2009, 12:35:29 AM

Title: Running TC 2.2 on old IBM Thinkpad R32 ([unflashed]BIOS date 2004)
Post by: QBall on August 09, 2009, 12:35:29 AM

Yeah. it's not ancient but it came with only a 1.6 GHz CPU, a 20 Gb hdd and 256 MB RAM.

The laptop also came with an Intersil Corp Prism 2.5 Wavelan chip (on Windows, the GUI is in spanish) it also has an Ethernet port (would TC automagically detect it?) and seems to not have the driver(s) for it, thus I'm unable to access the internet to download programs (extensions?) to add to my TC desktop. I tried to download wicd via
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/tce/wireless_tools.tcel (http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/tce/wireless_tools.tcel)
through my existing (installed) linux but all I get is some garbled trash:

Code: [Select]

�instead of downloading the file, it opens a page with a bunch of the above!?

Thanks all,
QBall

Title: Re: Running TC 2.2 on old IBM Thinkpad R32 ([unflashed]BIOS date 2004)
Post by: ^thehatsrule^ on August 09, 2009, 01:40:49 AM

Try downloading it as a file/binary instead of viewing it, i.e. with wget, or save as...

Title: Re: Running TC 2.2 on old IBM Thinkpad R32 ([unflashed]BIOS date 2004)
Post by: curaga on August 09, 2009, 05:10:13 AM

It appears to have Intel ethernet, so try grabbing the firmware extension. Prism chipsets are well supported also in the wireless extension.

Title: Re: Running TC 2.2 on old IBM Thinkpad R32 ([unflashed]BIOS date 2004)
Post by: QBall on August 09, 2009, 10:06:09 PM

Quote from: ^thehatsrule^ on August 09, 2009, 01:40:49 AM

Try downloading it as a file/binary instead of viewing it, i.e. with wget, or save as...

When I tried "Save As", I got: (in Opera):
The file
file:///home/james/Downloads/wireless_tools.tcel
is a binary, saving it will result in a corrupt file.

Using wget worked like a charm, tho! ;D
That worked!  :o  Thanks! ;D

Title: Re: Running TC 2.2 on old IBM Thinkpad R32 ([unflashed]BIOS date 2004)
Post by: QBall on August 09, 2009, 10:22:08 PM

Quote from: curaga on August 09, 2009, 05:10:13 AM

It appears to have Intel ethernet, so try grabbing the firmware extension. Prism chipsets are well supported also in the wireless extension.

Do you mean the wireless tools? If not, what is the "firmware extension"'s URL?

The ethernet in the laptop is, indeed, Intel. It is an Intel Corp 82801CAM (this is what I got from a Linux benchmark / system info program called HardInfo v0.4.2.3)

Thanks,
QBall

Title: Re: Running TC 2.2 on old IBM Thinkpad R32 ([unflashed]BIOS date 2004)
Post by: ^thehatsrule^ on August 10, 2009, 12:52:25 AM

It's available in the same downloads page.