Ahoy everyone !
The topic title was changed – I had modified.
FROM
“Catch 22 of WIFI firmware or how to get Europian nightly image downloads”
TO
“RESOLVED THE INSTALL ITSELF – Catch 22 of – OLD – WIFI firmware install and get connected (ONLINE) in Haiku Legacy”
This was necessary as
one hand :
@Pulkomandy explained
the writers of explicit firmwares do not let to include these older firmwares to include these files into nightly images . Not some US laws or orders. This way no more europian nightly images needed.
the other hand :
The install of Broadcom wifi chip(s) half-automatically succeeded - I could use Haiku UserGuide for Windows users to download and create firmware zip, besides I downloaded original Broadcom firmware directly,
installed 32bit hpkg of fwcutter (the tool of broadcom thatt helps extract firmware to usable pieces to install) of
@BlueSkye given direct links independently earlier - just after R1B3 started first and installed this onto SD card 3rd partition - that one of two I bought to try out Haiku Betas - both.
32 bit - 64bit nightly images of 1-1 :
hrev55733 and (now) hrev55758 images burned onto – 128 GB Kingston SDXC
hrev55733 and hrev55758
Dell Inspiron 9100 P4 laptop computer (2004) - 32bit Haiku -
OK, desktop reached without fails - internet ( getting online ) failed only as old wifi firmware - that finally resolved in R1B3.
Now connection drops just as Webpositive started and I try to reach Haiku website in Haiku R1B3
This way I write Here this post of a
Fujitsu Amilo Li 1720, aka – Amilo_XP from within XP – laptop computer (2004?) - 32bit Haiku -
hrev55733 nightly (just as later hrev557758 nightly, R1B3 as well in case Amilo)
fails to reach Haiku desktop
hrev55733 : using F12 to get optional Multiboot option - that failes as if hrev55733 the image and with the USB SD card reader never happened to enlisted
hrev55758 Haiku 32bit : still not probed fully – boot was interrupted by me due to failing to reach desktop
R1B3 : stops at chip icon I think and “no bootable image found” error message appears
Dell Precison 6700M Intel core i7 3940XM Extreme Edition laptop computer (2004?) - 32bit Haiku -
hrev55733 : desktop reached Intel wifi installed and configured but drops connection immediately after password added and connected
hrev55758 : not probed yet
R1B3 : not probed yet
Dell Precison 6700M Intel core i7 3940XM Extreme Edition laptop computer (2004?) - 64bit Haiku -
hrev55733 : desktop NEVER reached – ALL icons remain grey –
That laptop is actually configured in BIOS using Legacy + CSM in UEFI Bios
and probably 64bit nightly Haiku requires UEFI – that setting not probed yet
hrev55758 64 bit: not probed yet
R1B3 64 bit : not probed yet
32 bit - 64bit Haiku R1B3 images of 1-1
Haiku R1B3 32 and 64 bit images burned onto – 128 GB Sandisk SDXC
Dell Inspiron 9100 P4 laptop computer (2004) - 32bit Haiku -
OK, desktop reached without fails - internet ( getting online ) failed only as old wifi firmware - that finally resolved HERE in R1B3.
Now connection drops just as Webpositive started and try to reach Haiku website in Haiku R1B3.
IDEA – to have shared NTFS BeNTFS) or shared FAT32 (befat32) partition on the same SD card – FAILED, as Windows NEVER gives drive letter to secondary but the first partition on removable media - at least XP %
I don’t remember what happened on Win7 or did I check it now with install images.
That failed to check out BeFS partition as Windows just wanted to format them when I attempted to see what can I see on it (there’s no BeFS.IFS yet )