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TCB Talk / Re: Help with USB antenna

« Last post by RobertZhivkov on April 20, 2026, 05:27:40 AM »

firmware-rtlwifi is installed. heres the output of dmesg for you:

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[sdb] Write Protect is on
[sdb] Mode Sense: 0b 00 80 08
[sdb] No Caching mode page found
[sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through(The rest is the internal USB hub of my laptop)

    [Edit]: Added code tags.  Rich

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TCB Talk / Re: Help with USB antenna

« Last post by patrikg on April 20, 2026, 05:20:06 AM »

Have seen some Realtek usb wifi needs some firmware, have you loaded that ?

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firmware-rtlwifi.tczAnd what is the dmesg saying ?

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TCB Talk / Re: Help with USB antenna

« Last post by RobertZhivkov on April 20, 2026, 05:14:14 AM »

USB wifi antenna, the wifi module just doesn't work, no matter the operating system. So i decided to buy an USB WIFI antenna 

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Off-Topic - Tiny Core Lounge / Hello!

« Last post by RobertZhivkov on April 20, 2026, 05:05:05 AM »

Hi, my name is Robert. I have recently joined the forum for the FUNZIES (And help for the stuff I dont understand as i primary use arch and i have it installed on a old Lenovo-G530) And I thought it was a good idea to atleast introduce myself on the forums. For the sake if whatever  . So uh, WHO'S DOWN TO PLAY DOOM-

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TCB Talk / Re: Help with USB antenna

« Last post by patrikg on April 20, 2026, 05:04:17 AM »

USB antenna ?
SDR or WIFI or what ?

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TCB Talk / Re: Tiny Core Linux gets a mention in Techspot

« Last post by RobertZhivkov on April 20, 2026, 05:01:09 AM »

Hell yeah 

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TCB Talk / Re: Help with USB antenna

« Last post by RobertZhivkov on April 20, 2026, 04:59:59 AM »

I forgot to include that fact that after running modprobe with dose 2 modules i still wasn't geting a wlanX and everything that was listed on iwconfig said there was no wireless firmware. Upon start up it said the wifi driver that I installed was "unstable" for my hardware and it gives up.

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TCB Talk / Help with USB antenna

« Last post by RobertZhivkov on April 20, 2026, 04:56:59 AM »

Hello there, my name is Robert. I have a base installation of Tinycore and the usb antenna i bought dose not work I have done some debugging and i know its uses a Realteck chip (Implied by the 214b: part of the ID) i have tried using modprobe, specially the rtl8xxxu & rtl8193cu modules. When running lsusb there are 2 ID's asigned to it one of them is a fake one (1111:1111) and the other one is called Huasang Electronic (214b:7260). Its also Write Protected. Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

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TCB Q&A Forum / Re: Installation fails on Pentium MMX laptop

« Last post by patrikg on April 20, 2026, 02:28:36 AM »

Sorry for getting into your conversation, but what I see in the dmesg log it says that the there are dma collision and I also see that the pata driver fallsback to PIO mode.

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pata_acpi 0000:00:01.1: BMDMA: BAR4 is zero, falling back to PIOI will suggest you to take a look at the BIOS setting, to see if you could change this behaviur.
I have seen some BIOS that you could reset the PNP settings, for like old days when you have to set jumpers for IO Base,IRQ, and DMA Address.
And for old computers that not having a working battery, some times you have to get into bios settings, just enter the bios settings and then save & exit, that will save a correct values in the nvram. Because the nvram has corrupt values.
Also do you have any pci cards more than the build in?

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TCB Q&A Forum / Re: Installation fails on Pentium MMX laptop

« Last post by rodders on April 20, 2026, 02:05:23 AM »

Well its beginning to look like a lost cause.
Thanks for all your help Rich.
I am intrigued though how Plop manages to access the HDD and CD. Frustrating!