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I'm working on a small laptop that has a WonderMedia WM8650 processor (armel) and as of right now, I have a working Linux kernel v4.14. So far I've been using this device thanks to the help of multistrap, that has the capability to create a bootable rootfs. The issue is that the preparation is...

I'm working on a small laptop that uses an arm cpu, and for it to work I have to create a rootfs before booting the system for the first time. The only way of doing that (that i know) is using multistrap. Now, I was wondering if there is any way to get the minimum for an installer to run on the...

Ok, after looking a little bit more, I found about this git. i first tried to fix the rtl8xxxu driver. It did change some things. I had to manually set an IP address, but it was able to authenticate. The only thing is that if the connection failed, the device would just hang there, not updating...

Sorry for the wait. Ive had some issues with the laptop and now I'm on kernel 4.14. Still, the same occurs. I don't think that driver would work for me. I have the RTL8188CTV (and for some reason, linux reports a RTL8188CUS). That said, I'll give it a try anyway, but I'll compile the kernel...

I'm working on a small ARMv5 notebook from 10 years ago. It has the WonderMedia WM8650 cpu, running at 600MHz. My idea here is to make it run a very lightweight Linux with a very basic but useful GUI and nothing else. Its pretty useless for most use cases, but I wanted to "have it working", and...