Wifi not working on Porteus v4.0 - A Solution.
Posted: 13 Aug 2020, 03:54
Howdy.
I literally registered to this forum and 'resurrected' my Mediafire account for doing this post.
I saw that many people is having issues with wi-fi hardware detection when booting to Porteus 4, and there's not many solutions to those posts. Or at least, there's one, but it has to be the commandline 'tricky' way.
Recently I found in a post that .sfs and .xzm are the same thing, Squashed filesystems. And taking in count that I previously used Puppy linux 'X-slacko 4.4' with working wi-fi, that some of the .sfs files are the ones containing the drivers, and that both OSes are based on Slackware, I thought that porting that .sfs file with the drivers to Porteus would solve it...
And I did it, literally just changing the filename extension from .sfs to .xzm, lol.
Guess what, it did work!
So then I'm here, I decided to upload the file on mediafire and here I leave it for ya'll [Updated 21/08/2020]:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/8wtrotflv ... t.xzm/file
All you have to do is to copy this file to the '/porteus/base/' or '/porteus/modules/' folder, then boot into the drive you have Porteus installed in, and see if it worked.
I hope it does work for you , this post is not intended to give you an allwinner solution but for testing porpuses. Take in count that the original .sfs file comes from a puplet based on Slackware unstable (14.1), and some of the drivers may be outdated, plus it doesn't have all of the drivers in the world. There's anyway another post in this group specificly made for Broadcome adapters. See ya!
I literally registered to this forum and 'resurrected' my Mediafire account for doing this post.
I saw that many people is having issues with wi-fi hardware detection when booting to Porteus 4, and there's not many solutions to those posts. Or at least, there's one, but it has to be the commandline 'tricky' way.
Recently I found in a post that .sfs and .xzm are the same thing, Squashed filesystems. And taking in count that I previously used Puppy linux 'X-slacko 4.4' with working wi-fi, that some of the .sfs files are the ones containing the drivers, and that both OSes are based on Slackware, I thought that porting that .sfs file with the drivers to Porteus would solve it...
And I did it, literally just changing the filename extension from .sfs to .xzm, lol.
Guess what, it did work!
So then I'm here, I decided to upload the file on mediafire and here I leave it for ya'll [Updated 21/08/2020]:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/8wtrotflv ... t.xzm/file
All you have to do is to copy this file to the '/porteus/base/' or '/porteus/modules/' folder, then boot into the drive you have Porteus installed in, and see if it worked.
I hope it does work for you , this post is not intended to give you an allwinner solution but for testing porpuses. Take in count that the original .sfs file comes from a puplet based on Slackware unstable (14.1), and some of the drivers may be outdated, plus it doesn't have all of the drivers in the world. There's anyway another post in this group specificly made for Broadcome adapters. See ya!