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woof - the Puppy builder
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Fix wifi for Macs #3

Closed bgoodwine closed 1 year ago

bgoodwine commented 2 years ago

When SlackoPuppy boots on the Macbook Air, the wifi isn't found after booting up. Potentially helpful resources: Wireless on Macbook Air forum discussion Debian fix:

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from here.

Running iwconfig only brings up lo no wireless extensions., and /etc/udev/rules.d/51-simple_network_setup.rules only has a bash script that runs /bins/grep -sq '=sns' /root/.connectwizardrc and adds /usr/local/simple_network_setup/build_udevmodulelist to the run list. This program creates a null file for each module being loaded for rc.network to await (?).

bgoodwine commented 2 years ago

Running lspci -nn | grep Network will tell you what driver you have (ex: mine includes the term "Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4360") The number tells you what driver you need.

For 4360, wl is an acceptable driver.

Debian instructions on installing wl.

List of all broadcom chips with drivers for Linux.

bgoodwine commented 2 years ago

This might be too hard, but: determine range of hardware we want to support, and what sort of drivers they require, and include all those binaries in a folder somewhere. At boot, the first time only (somehow? discover where the startup page runs, and do this in the same way) just install it manually.

bgoodwine commented 2 years ago

This might not be something we can do :(