I'm trying to boot SliTaz 3.0 on my Acer AO532h netbook, and I've run into a nasty problem. Here's the story so far:
To begin with, I created a SliTaz LiveUSB flash drive, plugged it in, and booted up. Everything looked good at first, but the GUI never initialized. All I got was a command line. I'd run into this problem before on an old Presario laptop, and I'd been able to fix it that time by connecting the computer to my router via an Ethernet cable and running tazx. Didn't work quite so smoothly this time, though. When I plugged in the Ethernet cable, SliTaz froze and I had to reboot. When the system started up again, the boot process stalled at "setting default mixer volumes," or something like that. So I rebooted and used the sound=no and sound=noconf options. This time it stalled at "configuring loopback." So it looks like wired internet access is a no-go.
Now, my predicament is this: I need to connect to the internet to run tazx and download the Intel drivers for my netbook's GMA 3150. I presume this would allow the GUI to start up. However, it appears that the only way I can access the internet is via WiFi, and I don't know how to connect to my network without using the GUI. Hence the catch-22.
I attempted briefly to establish a WiFi connection from the command prompt, to no avail (my network uses WPA, which I understand complicates things considerably). If I was able to get wireless internet working, however, that might be the end of the problem. Does anyone know how to configure a wireless internet connection from the command line?
The other thing I'd like to know is if there is any way to create a SliTaz LiveUSB or LiveCD with the manufacturer-specific video drivers already loaded. It seems to me that this would be a valuable thing to have, not just for this particular case but for SliTaz usage in general. Is it possible to create such a modified SliTaz ISO?
