Re: Linux on Wii

Finally decided to give it a try yesterday; everything seems to work
just fine.  I Imagine they just pulled the external GameCube
ports/support for the "Family Edition"; the rest seems the same.

Now to see if I can get a newer kernel/distro working...



On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Lucas Jones <[email protected]> wrot=
e:
> It's been a while since I've used it, but I think as long as you run
> Linux from BootMii (even if BootMii is run from IOS), it has full
> access to the hardware. On my newer Wii, WLAN works, and I've used a
> USB keyboard, mouse, SD card reader and flash drive running from
> BootMii on IOS without problems. You would need to check that the
> kernel is built with V4L support, and that you can get the appropriate
> USB webcam driver modules built for PowerPC.
>
> Googling a bit, it does seem all the `Family Edition' configuration
> does is remove GameCube compatibility; I wouldn't imagine this would
> affect HBC/BootMii, given that they don't need/touch MIOS at all any
> more. You'd need to try it to be sure; there might be other hardware
> missing.
>
> Lucas Jones
>
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