Alpine Linux on Raspberry Pi Basics: Networking

[@Cuyox3]

Thanks for the video ! Could you make a video with the explication to do an accespoint with rasberry using alpine ?😅😊

[@xtendedgreg]

That is a great idea! I am planning to do a live stream on that this weekend. Thank you for your idea and for watching! 😊

[@Cuyox3]

@@xtendedgreg okay, I'll be waiting :D

[@dopytheangel]

I have a Microsoft surface pro 3 and the eth0 does not work, wlan0 does not appear at all. I been going out of my mind so I am going to try all of these in hopes this would work.

[@dopytheangel]

Update: none of these worked.

[@xtendedgreg]

Hey @dopytheangel, you may need to install the specific driver for your device. While Alpine has many of the most common drivers already installed, some of the less common ones have been left to manual install to save space. For the Surface Pro 3, the WiFi needs the Marvell driver from my quick search, so should be able to be loaded using 'apk add linux-firmware-mrvl'. If that doesn't work, do a quick search in apk using the command 'apk search linux-firmware-' which will provide a list of available packages that contain drivers that can be installed that may help with your issue. I wish you luck and thank you for watching and commenting! 😊

[@dopytheangel]

@@xtendedgreg I cant install anything without ethernet or wireless. do I need to install it while making the usb?