[SOLVED] Can I install Porteus on old 32bit laptop - w/ dualboot?

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Post#16 by Rava » 31 Jan 2023, 20:37

gotPortee wrote:
31 Jan 2023, 18:32
Nor does it identify the wifi adapter within the System info Center's Network information
So I suspect I may have to use a terminal command to start up the wifi adapter?
Depends.
When the wifi works with Puppy, then it will be possible to get it to work with Port as well, probably you also need to boot with the needed firmware when the generic Port lack that one.
Loading that firmware module later doesn't work, you have to load that during boot.

When the wifi not works on Puppy either, then it could be that your wifi is not supported by Linux because the manufacturer not cares about his Linux customers and only supports Windoze.

While I got the Wifi in my main laptop running, it only sees four of the approx 20 available WLANs and the one I need is not among these.

I now use an quite outdated 32 bit mono-core system as the sub-laptop that accesses the WLAN and it shares its internet via settings in Network manager and via LAN.

I wish you have more luck and that your wifi hardware is fully supported running Linux, unlike mine.
Cheers!
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Post#17 by Ed_P » 31 Jan 2023, 20:39

gotPortee wrote:
31 Jan 2023, 18:32
Now - very nicely booted into Porteus!!
YEA!!!!
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gotPortee wrote:
31 Jan 2023, 18:32
Now is it possible to resolve the issue that Porteus does not see the wifi adapter?
Very probably. But 1st:
Ed_P wrote:
31 Jan 2023, 05:32
What's the name of the ISO file you downloaded for Porteus?
and
Ed_P wrote:
31 Jan 2023, 05:32
After you get Porteus to boot download the syssnapshot.sh script shown on this page: Using Palera1n on porteus (Post by Ed_P #92632), save it to your /home/guest folder, open the folder in terminal mode, execute the command

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chmod +x syssnapshot.sh
then run the script in the terminal window using the command

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./syssnapshot.sh
and post the output of the command.
Then in terminal signon as root and post the output of this command:

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su
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lspci -k -s $(lspci | grep -Ei 'wifi|wireless|net' | awk '{print$1}' | head -n1)
:)
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Post#18 by gotPortee » 31 Jan 2023, 20:56

I am able to connect to the internet via ethernet
I apparently needed to modify the usm.config file - temporarily remove "slacky" from the repository source line - in order to perform the usm -u all

I tried LSPCI as a terminal command to see if Porteus can identify the wifi adapter hardware.
But Porteus does not have LSPCI installed - and I have no idea what slackware package LSPCI is located within.

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Post#19 by Ed_P » 31 Jan 2023, 21:03

gotPortee wrote:
31 Jan 2023, 20:56
But Porteus does not have LSPCI installed
Yes it does but you have to run it as root. Note the two commands I posted above the lspci command.

Good you found a means to connect to the Internet. :good:
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Post#20 by gotPortee » 31 Jan 2023, 21:23

Ed_P wrote:
31 Jan 2023, 05:32
What's the name of the ISO file you downloaded for Porteus?
The name if the ISO is Porteus-MATE-v4.0-x86_64



and
Ed_P wrote:
31 Jan 2023, 05:32
After you get Porteus to boot download the syssnapshot.sh script shown on this page: Using Palera1n on porteus (Post by Ed_P #92632), save it to your /home/guest folder, open the folder in terminal mode, execute the command

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chmod +x syssnapshot.sh
then run the script in the terminal window using the command

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./syssnapshot.sh
and post the output of the command.



Here is the first output:
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~# uname -a
Linux porteus 4.16.3-porteus #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Apr 21 12:42:52 Local time zone must be set-- x86_64 Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N550 @ 1.50GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

~# cat /etc/porteus/*
001-core.xzm:20180422
002-xorg.xzm:20180422
003-xfce.xzm:20171113
initrd.xz:20180311

~# ls -l /mnt/live/memory/images
000-kernel.xzm : Apr 21 2018
001-core.xzm : Apr 22 2018
002-xorg.xzm : Apr 22 2018
003-xfce.xzm : Apr 16 2018

~# cat /proc/cmdline
quiet changes=/porteus

Boot DRV: /mnt/sda3
------------------------------------------------



Then in terminal signon as root and post the output of this command:

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su
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lspci -k -s $(lspci | grep -Ei 'wifi|wireless|net' | awk '{print$1}' | head -n1)
:)
[/quote]

Here is the output from lspci
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09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM57760 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Device 04a5
Kernel driver in use: tg3
Kernel modules: tg3

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Post#21 by Ed_P » 31 Jan 2023, 21:33

So you've been working with a x86_64 bit system all along not a x686 system.

And for the Broadcom device check out this link: [HOWTO] Broadcom wifi under Porteus
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Post#22 by gotPortee » 31 Jan 2023, 22:07

Ed_P wrote:
31 Jan 2023, 21:33
So you've been working with a x86_64 bit system all along not a x686 system.

And for the Broadcom device check out this link: [HOWTO] Broadcom wifi under Porteus
Thank you Ed!

From the output of lspci -d 14e4:

Broadcam corp BCM43224 14e4:5353

Now looking in the table provided by wireless.wikee it looks like the correct driver is "brcm80211"

From the table:
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14e4:4353 yes (3.1+) BCM43224 a/b/g/n N (r6) wl/brcm80211

So it appears I need to download this driver using the usm package manager.
The command for that would be "usm -g brcm80211"?

Thanks!

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Post#23 by beny » 31 Jan 2023, 22:20

you have the wifi driver yet /lib/modules/6.1.8-porteus/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211 ok you have another kernel version but is the same in a terminal you have to load the modules
first file:///lib/modules/6.1.8-porteus/kernel/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko and the other one with "insmod" name of module

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Post#24 by gotPortee » 31 Jan 2023, 22:38

beny wrote:
31 Jan 2023, 22:20
you have the wifi driver yet /lib/modules/6.1.8-porteus/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211 ok you have another kernel version but is the same in a terminal you have to load the modules
first file:///lib/modules/6.1.8-porteus/kernel/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko and the other one with "insmod" name of module
Yes
Within the folder /lib/modules/4.16.3-porteus/kernel/net/wireless - are the following files:
- cfg80211.ko
- lib80211.ko
- lib80211_crypt_ccmp.ko
- lib80211_crypt_tkip.ko
- lib80211_crypt_wep.ko

But I do not know what to do with them?
Following the instructions from the [HOW TO] Broadcom page - I did create the file /etc/modprobe.d/b43_blacklist.conf
And I added the text into it: Blacklist wl

So if I understand - at this point - I need to be able to update Porteus config so that it looks for the Broadcom 80211 driver?
If that is the case - how do I do that?

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Post#25 by beny » 31 Jan 2023, 22:47

in terminal like root insmod - cfg80211.ko
and insmod - lib80211.ko
you have to write the whole kernel modules path, you can see if the modules are loaded with lsmod always in terminal

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Post#26 by gotPortee » 31 Jan 2023, 22:58

beny wrote:
31 Jan 2023, 22:47
in terminal like root insmod - cfg80211.ko
and insmod - lib80211.ko
you have to write the whole kernel modules path, you can see if the modules are loaded with lsmod always in terminal
Thanks!
For the first one I tried this:
insmod /lib/modules/4.16.3-porteus/kernel/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko

System response:
insmod: error could not insert module - unknown symbol in module

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Post#27 by Ed_P » 31 Jan 2023, 23:09

A little off topic at this point but...
gotPortee wrote:
31 Jan 2023, 22:07
From the output of lspci -d 14e4:
Where are you finding 14e4? Your lspci above shows 04a5.
gotPortee wrote:
31 Jan 2023, 21:23
Here is the output from lspci
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09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM57760 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Device 04a5
But continue with beny's help at this point.
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Post#28 by beny » 31 Jan 2023, 23:12

hi you don't have the crippled source of the kernel terminal modinfo /lib/modules/4.16.3-porteus/kernel/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko
you have a list of the deps if the module have one or many better to do also for the lib80211.ko
sorry for this but a system x86 is a bit too old ......

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Post#29 by gotPortee » 31 Jan 2023, 23:26

Ed_P wrote:
31 Jan 2023, 23:09
A little off topic at this point but...
gotPortee wrote:
31 Jan 2023, 22:07
From the output of lspci -d 14e4:
Where are you finding 14e4? Your lspci above shows 04a5.

When I enter this command:
lspci -nn -d 14e4:

System response:
09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM57760 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe [14e4:1690] (rev 01)
0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:4353] (rev 01)
gotPortee wrote:
31 Jan 2023, 21:23
Here is the output from lspci
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09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM57760 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Device 04a5
But continue with beny's help at this point.

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Post#30 by gotPortee » 31 Jan 2023, 23:44

beny wrote:
31 Jan 2023, 23:12
hi you don't have the crippled source of the kernel terminal modinfo /lib/modules/4.16.3-porteus/kernel/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko
you have a list of the deps if the module have one or many better to do also for the lib80211.ko
sorry for this but a system x86 is a bit too old ......
Hi Beny - I'm not sure what you are saying here?
Are we saying the wifi adapter in this laptop is dated such that there is no proper linux driver for it?
The other OS installed in the laptop is Puppy - and both the Ethernet and Wifi work with that OS.
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