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TCB Talk / Re: Oldest Pc

« Last post by Rich on December 03, 2024, 01:05:16 PM »

Hi Loo!
I almost forgot about the Sony laptop someone gave me.

It's a Sony VAIO VGN-FZ240E from 2007 running TC15 x86_64.
Intel Core2 Duo T7250, 4 Gig RAM, R1120J7 BIOS Version
I found firmware on GitHub to enable the Ricoh camera VGP-VCC8 [R5U870]

Virtualization was disabled by VAIO Corp, BIOS had no virtualization options listed.
Found online how to read CMOS data, flip a bit, and write it back to enable virtualization.

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Raspberry Pi / Pi Zero 2 W core 15 wifi

« Last post by piran on December 03, 2024, 12:40:04 PM »

Hi, newbie here. Just trying to get Tiny core running on my Pi Zero. I've followed some of the posts on here:
https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,26659.0.html
https://gist.github.com/BillyNate/13732d02c41378f1c630fa914fe63378

and dug around some but I can't get it working
uname -r gives 6.6.47-piCore-v8
I've been downloading from http://tinycorelinux.net/15.x/aarch64/tcz/ (which is the same branch that I got the img file from)
I have installed:
wifi.tcz
wireless-6.6.47-piCore-v8.tcz
wireless_tools.tcz
wpa_supplicant.tcz
firmware-rpi-wifi.tcz
firmware-rtlwifi.tcz

I've added firmware-rpi-wifi.tcz and wifi.tcz to the onboot.lst

but if I do sudo wifi.sh it tells me that there are  "No wifi devices found!"

What am I doing wrong?
Thanks

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TCB Talk / Re: wishlist for TCL16

« Last post by Rich on December 03, 2024, 11:46:29 AM »

Hi GNUser

What curaga was saying is that he doesn't want to move anything out of /usr/sbin into /usr/bin. ...

Sorry, I missed that part.

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TCB Talk / Re: wishlist for TCL16

« Last post by GNUser on December 03, 2024, 11:33:14 AM »

Hi Rich. Please feel free to move these posts from this thread to the "wishlist for TCL16" thread here:
https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,27276.0.html

After all, /usr merge has nothing to do with provides.sh (other than both being on TCL16 wishlist)

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TCB Talk / Re: wishlist for TCL16

« Last post by GNUser on December 03, 2024, 11:18:38 AM »

    [Edit]: Continued from here https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,27363.msg176504.html#msg176504  Rich

Hi Rich. What curaga was saying is that he doesn't want to move anything out of /usr/sbin into /usr/bin. I agree with him. That's called sbin merge and is not what polikuo and I are proposing.

usr merge is about doing away with the pointless splitting of some things into /usr/bin and other things into /bin, for example. This serves no purpose other than to break things (e.g., an application looks for /usr/bin/foo but cannot find it because on that distro it happens to be /bin/foo). usr merge forever fixes this kind of breakage while also simplifying the file system. It's win-win.

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TCB Tips & Tricks / Re: How to find which extension provides a file

« Last post by Rich on December 03, 2024, 11:09:55 AM »

Hi GNUser

Pull request has been made: https://github.com/tinycorelinux/Core-scripts/pull/70 ...

Thank you.

... Current situation: Base uses not only /usr/bin, /usr/lib, and /usr/sbin but also /bin, /lib, and /sbin. /usr/local used for extensions.

/usr merge situation: Base uses /usr for everything. /bin is just a link to /usr/bin, /lib is just a link to /usr/lib, /sbin is just a link to /usr/sbin. /usr/local for extensions. ...

That reminded me of this:

sbin still has a purpose, root-requiring stuff, so not sure on that one.

Yes, at least sbin has a purpose. Debian/Devuan did not do sbin merge (i.e., kept /usr/sbin as a real directory).

    [Edit]: /usr merge comments continue here https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,27276.msg176505.html#msg176505

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TCB Talk / Re: Oldest Pc

« Last post by linic on December 03, 2024, 11:08:36 AM »

Hello!
Sorry about to dig this... but: I have an (VERY!) old thinclient (2007?), and it has not a lot of documentation.
it´s a "Winbox Tecnoworld" - has a "sys sys sys" processor (?!?) / 128mb ram / ide (40pin) interface and an adaptor for a flash card (1GB)
I think Ill try to turn this guy on - and (MAYBE!) could this may be the oldest pc running TC.
Ill be in touch, gentleman.
(pics in a very near future and sorry about my terrible english!)

I'm running TinyCore 6.3 on a laptop from 2001 with similar specs (128MB of RAM, Pentium III (I think), 20GB IDE HDD) and it works quite well.  I can't fit a newer TinyCore into that RAM limit and it's hard to upgrade that era of TC anyway, so I've been maintaining modern packages for my own purposes for a good few years now.  If someone wants me to share them, I can email them in, but I suspect the community will be wanting to retire TC6 soon (which will leave me in trouble: it would be helpful if I knew how to run a mirror just for TC6...).

I use it for the Old Computer Challenge (see my Blog: https://ddlyh.smol.pub/on-hardware ).

I got this old thinkpad 560z from October 1998 working with microcrore 14.0 (no GUI). With tmux, w3m and some patience it's still able to browse the net

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TCB Tips & Tricks / Re: How to find which extension provides a file

« Last post by GNUser on December 03, 2024, 10:34:57 AM »

Hi Rich. Pull request has been made: https://github.com/tinycorelinux/Core-scripts/pull/70
Hopefully it will be accepted before TCL16 comes out

... it seems final decision is Juanito's and he hasn't weighed in one way or the other ...

I thought he did:

I’d prefer to continue using /usr for everything in the base and /usr/local for extensions.

Depending on how you read that, Juanito's preference would be best honored by implementing /usr merge.

Current situation: Base uses not only /usr/bin, /usr/lib, and /usr/sbin but also /bin, /lib, and /sbin. /usr/local used for extensions.

/usr merge situation: Base uses /usr for everything. /bin is just a link to /usr/bin, /lib is just a link to /usr/lib, /sbin is just a link to /usr/sbin. /usr/local for extensions.

P.S. Implementing /usr merge is not as radical as it sounds. I did it as a test and it was simple. It involves moving the few things in base that live in /bin into /usr/bin and creating a single symlink (ln -s /usr/bin /bin). Repeat for /lib and /sbin. Done.

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TCB Tips & Tricks / Re: How to find which extension provides a file

« Last post by Rich on December 03, 2024, 10:08:08 AM »

Hi GNUser

... May I submit a pull request on your behalf? ...

Yes, by all means, please.

... it seems final decision is Juanito's and he hasn't weighed in one way or the other ...

I thought he did:

I’d prefer to continue using /usr for everything in the base and /usr/local for extensions.

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General TC Talk / Re: ipv6 packets getting lost after switching to new vpn provider

« Last post by GNUser on December 03, 2024, 08:58:37 AM »

AirVPN just confirmed that they are having IPv6 routing issues with all servers in the city I was trying to connect to (NYC, USA). I tried a server in a different city and all is well.

Sorry for the noise.