piCore WiFi

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There are several options to obtain the needed extensions to get WiFi working.
The easiest is to connect the RPi with an Ethernet cable to Internet.
You can than use `tce-load -wi <extension-name>` to install them.

Below the steps to first download the needed extensions to an USB-stick and install them from there.

The needed files depend on the type of RPi and if you have a 32-bit (armhf) or 64-bit (aarch64) piCore OS.

Obtain the .tcz and .tcz.md5.txt and .tcz.dep files of the following extensions, and their dependencies:
- The generic list
  - firmware-rpi-wifi.tcz
  - wireless_tools.tcz
  - wpa_supplicant.tcz
  - wifi.tcz
- RPi3
  - wireless-6.6.47-piCore-v8.tcz
- RPi5
  - wireless-6.6.47-piCore-v8-16k.tcz

and put them on a FAT32 usb-stick.

For the piCore-15 64-bit (aarch64) the links to the generic extensions are:

http://repo.tinycorelinux.net/15.x/aarch64/tcz/firmware-rpi-wifi.tcz
http://repo.tinycorelinux.net/15.x/aarch64/tcz/firmware-rpi-wifi.tcz.md5.txt

http://repo.tinycorelinux.net/15.x/aarch64/tcz/wpa_supplicant.tcz
http://repo.tinycorelinux.net/15.x/aarch64/tcz/wpa_supplicant.tcz.md5.txt
http://repo.tinycorelinux.net/15.x/aarch64/tcz/wpa_supplicant.tcz.dep

http://repo.tinycorelinux.net/15.x/aarch64/tcz/readline.tcz
http://repo.tinycorelinux.net/15.x/aarch64/tcz/readline.tcz.md5.txt
http://repo.tinycorelinux.net/15.x/aarch64/tcz/readline.tcz.dep

http://repo.tinycorelinux.net/15.x/aarch64/tcz/libnl.tcz
http://repo.tinycorelinux.net/15.x/aarch64/tcz/libnl.tcz.md5.txt

http://repo.tinycorelinux.net/15.x/aarch64/tcz/ncurses.tcz
http://repo.tinycorelinux.net/15.x/aarch64/tcz/ncurses.tcz.md5.txt

http://repo.tinycorelinux.net/15.x/aarch64/tcz/wifi.tcz
http://repo.tinycorelinux.net/15.x/aarch64/tcz/wifi.tcz.md5.txt
http://repo.tinycorelinux.net/15.x/aarch64/tcz/wifi.tcz.dep

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1/

cp /mnt/sda1/64bit/* /mnt/mmcblk0p2/tce/optional/

tce-load -i firmware-rpi-wifi.tcz 
tce-load -i wifi.tcz
tce-load -i wireless-6.6.47-piCore-v7.tcz 
tce-load -i wireless_tools.tcz 
tce-load -i wpa_supplicant.tcz

sudo vi /mnt/mmcblk0p2/tce/onboot.lst
add:

        firmware-rpi-wifi.tcz
        wifi.tcz
        wireless_tools.tcz
        wpa_supplicant.tcz

sudo vi /opt/.filetool.lst
add:

        etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

Manually execute 'wifi.sh' select and configure an access point.
This will create a 'wifi.db' file.

sudo vi /opt/bootlocal.sh
add:

        wifi.sh -a &> /home/tc/wifi.log &