Hello (I have a million questions)

[Member Izzye]

I’ve recently gained an ancient Fujitsu Amilo Pro V2000D which claimed to have less than 512mb ram so I had to find something other than Peppermint which I was running on my other ancient (but not quite so ancient) computer. I have never used antix before and I’m coming up against quite a few problems;

1. I have a wifi card somewhere in the laptop but when I ran a check on it (rfkill list) I get back
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
so I’m not sure if it doesn’t like the wifi card but I can’t get it to see the internet at all. It’s not the end of the world, I can use the ethernet, but it is a minor irritation.

2. The laptop crashed and I got a warning about the HDD being about to fail and I should back up all my data now, ran badblocks on it and it came back saying I had no bad sectors at all so I don’t know what’s happening there, is there anything else I can do to check the viability of the disc?

3. I don’t seem to be able to install chrome, it downloaded fine but when I came to install I got this;

Izzye@Lazarus:~
$ sudo apt install ./google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
[sudo] password for Izzye:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Note, selecting ‘google-chrome-stable:amd64’ instead of ‘./google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb’
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
google-chrome-stable:amd64 : Depends: fonts-liberation:amd64 but it is not installable
Depends: libappindicator3-1:amd64 but it is not installable
Depends: libasound2:amd64 (>= 1.0.16) but it is not installable
Depends: libatk-bridge2.0-0:amd64 (>= 2.5.3) but it is not installable
Depends: libatk1.0-0:amd64 (>= 2.2.0) but it is not installable
Depends: libatspi2.0-0:amd64 (>= 2.9.90) but it is not installable
Depends: libc6:amd64 (>= 2.16) but it is not installable
Depends: libcairo2:amd64 (>= 1.6.0) but it is not installable
Depends: libcups2:amd64 (>= 1.4.0) but it is not installable
Depends: libdbus-1-3:amd64 (>= 1.5.12) but it is not installable
Depends: libexpat1:amd64 (>= 2.0.1) but it is not installable
Depends: libgcc1:amd64 (>= 1:3.0) but it is not installable
Depends: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:amd64 (>= 2.22.0) but it is not installable
Depends: libglib2.0-0:amd64 (>= 2.31.8) but it is not installable
Depends: libgtk-3-0:amd64 (>= 3.9.10) but it is not installable
Depends: libnspr4:amd64 (>= 2:4.9-2~) but it is not installable
Depends: libnss3:amd64 (>= 2:3.22) but it is not installable
Depends: libpango-1.0-0:amd64 (>= 1.14.0) but it is not installable
Depends: libpangocairo-1.0-0:amd64 (>= 1.14.0) but it is not installable
Depends: libx11-6:amd64 (>= 2:1.4.99.1) but it is not installable
Depends: libx11-xcb1:amd64 but it is not installable
Depends: libxcb1:amd64 (>= 1.6) but it is not installable
Depends: libxcomposite1:amd64 (>= 1:0.3-1) but it is not installable
Depends: libxcursor1:amd64 (> 1.1.2) but it is not installable
Depends: libxdamage1:amd64 (>= 1:1.1) but it is not installable
Depends: libxext6:amd64 but it is not installable
Depends: libxfixes3:amd64 (>= 1:5.0) but it is not installable
Depends: libxi6:amd64 (>= 2:1.2.99.4) but it is not installable
Depends: libxrandr2:amd64 (>= 2:1.2.99.3) but it is not installable
Depends: libxrender1:amd64 but it is not installable
Depends: libxss1:amd64 but it is not installable
Depends: libxtst6:amd64 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I don’t think I’m running an unstable version, I thought I’d downloaded the correct one, I got this out of Terminal if that helps with any of the above;

PRETTY_NAME=”Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)”
NAME=”Debian GNU/Linux”
VERSION_ID=”10″
VERSION=”10 (buster)”
VERSION_CODENAME=buster
ID=debian

If anyone knows what I’ve done to make it not work or why it isn’t working, I’d really appreciate it. Thanks.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Firstly – welcome to antiX.

Post output on inxi -v8 (in a terminal) so we know more about your hardware and version.

You should install chrome via the package installer app in menu and in the control centre

If you only have 512 MB RAM any modern browser will struggle – that is, unfortunately, the way the modern Internet is.

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

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[Member rust collector]

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I do believe this:

0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes

means the wifi card is turned off, with a switch of some kind, or maybe some key combination?

• This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by rust collector.
• This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by rust collector.

[Member seaken64]

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Check your function keys. There might be a hardware switch for the wifi. Some of mine have a slide switch also on the side or front.

Chrome might not work. Maybe try Chromium? Or SeaMonkey? Slimjet? Palemoon?

I had a Pentium-M with less than 512MB, about 488. It was a challenge but I ran antiX-17 and SeaMonkey on it.

Seaken64

[Member seaken64]

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Try “lspci” at the command line for identifying the wifi.

[Moderator caprea]

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Yes, there must be a button somewhere on the laptop to turn the wifi on.
Also, did you update the system before trying to install chrome ?
sudo apt update
Like already mentioned, best way to install browsers is through package installer in control-centre > system.

[Member ex_Koo]

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You can download manual pdf.

Manual

[Member fatmac]

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Try running

sudo rfkill unblock all

Update your package list before trying to install new packages

sudo apt-get update

Also update your system

sudo apt-get upgrade

Then download & install it from our own repository

Linux (& BSD) since 1999

[Anonymous]

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Izzye wrote:

Hard blocked: yes

fatmac wrote:

Try running

sudo rfkill unblock all

Unfortunately rfkill cannot turn on hardware…

[Member Izzye]

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Thank you for all the responses 🙂 Sorry this is going to be a super long post, thought it better to do it in one than all individual ones.

INXI OUTPUT
Izzye@Lazarus:~
$ inxi -v8
System:
Host: Lazarus Kernel: 4.9.200-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc
v: 8.3.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.9.200-antix.1-486-smp
root=UUID=676c0c7f-0b91-4429-93c1-0dd9354d9f60 ro vga=791 quiet
Desktop: IceWM 1.5.5+git20190610 dm: SLiM 1.3.6
Distro: antiX-19-runit_386-base Marielle Franco 9 December 2019
base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Machine:
Type: Other-vm? System: FUJITSU SIEMENS product: AMILO Pro V2000 v: -1
serial: <root required> Chassis: type: 1 serial: <root required>
Mobo: FUJITSU SIEMENS model: AMILO Pro V2000 v: Rev.A
serial: <root required> BIOS: Phoenix v: R01-S0U date: 06/15/04
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 59.2 Wh condition: 59.2/59.2 Wh (100%) volts: 14.8/14.8
model: SANYO Bat 8Cell type: Li-ion serial: 236 status: Full
Memory:
RAM: total: 485.6 MiB used: 301.0 MiB (62.0%)
RAM Report:
permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
PCI Slots:
Permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Topology: Single Core model: Intel Celeron M bits: 32 type: MCP
arch: M Banias family: 6 model-id: 9 stepping: 5 microcode: 47
L2 cache: 512 KiB bogomips: 2599
Speed: 1300 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 1300
Flags: acpi bts clflush cmov cx8 de dts fpu fxsr mca mce mmx msr mtrr pbe
pge pse sep sse sse2 tm tsc vme
Vulnerabilities: Type: l1tf status: Vulnerable
Type: mds
status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT disabled
Type: meltdown status: Vulnerable
Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2
mitigation: Full generic retpoline, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics vendor: Fujitsu Solutions
driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:3582
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: intel
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1024×768~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 852GM/855GM x86/MMX/SSE2
v: 1.3 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM AC97 Audio vendor: Fujitsu Solutions
driver: snd_intel8x0 v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.5 chip ID: 8086:24c5
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.200-antix.1-486-smp
Network:
Device-1: Broadcom Limited BCM4401 100Base-T vendor: Wistron driver: b44
v: 2.0 port: 2000 bus ID: 02:05.0 chip ID: 14e4:4401
Device-2: Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network driver: ipw2200
v: 1.2.2kmprq port: 2000 bus ID: 02:06.0 chip ID: 8086:4220
IF: eth0 state: down mac: 00:0e:35:2d:68:72
IF-ID-1: eth1 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full
mac: 00:0a:e4:25:67:ab
IP v4: 192.168.1.87/24 type: dynamic scope: global
broadcast: 192.168.1.255
IP v6: fe80::20a:e4ff:fe25:67ab/64 scope: link
WAN IP: 86.183.30.114
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 37.26 GiB used: 2.69 GiB (7.2%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MK4025GAS size: 37.26 GiB
block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: <unknown>
serial: 54NB3363S rev: 0A scheme: MBR
Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: QSI model: CDRW/DVD SBW242U rev: UX33
dev-links: cdrom,cdrw,dvd
Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: cd-r,cd-rw
state: running
RAID:
Message: No RAID data was found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw size: 35.23 GiB size: 34.43 GiB (97.72%) used: 2.69 GiB (7.8%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 label: rootantiX19
uuid: 676c0c7f-0b91-4429-93c1-0dd9354d9f60
ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 3.6 MiB (0.2%) fs: swap
swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache pressure: 50 (default 100)
dev: /dev/sda2 label: swapantiX uuid: 6e1806d9-b397-4feb-a5bd-0434e06ab8c0
Unmounted:
Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
Hub: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002
Hub: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0001
Hub: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0001
Hub: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0001
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 48.0 C mobo: 40.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
1: deb http://mxlinux.mirrors.uk2.net/packages/antix/buster buster main nonfree
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
2: deb http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onion.list
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
Processes:
CPU top: 5
1: cpu: 31.7% command: firefox-esr pid: 2633 mem: 148.1 MiB (30.4%)
2: cpu: 19.0% command: firefox-esr pid: 2466 mem: 198.4 MiB (40.8%)
3: cpu: 3.9% command: xorg pid: 2057 mem: 27.4 MiB (5.6%)
4: cpu: 2.2% command: roxterm pid: 3517 mem: 23.4 MiB (4.8%)
5: cpu: 1.0% command: set_time-and_date.sh started by: gksu pid: 3073
mem: 29.9 MiB (6.1%)
Memory top: 5
1: mem: 198.4 MiB (40.8%) command: firefox-esr pid: 2466 cpu: 19.0%
2: mem: 148.1 MiB (30.4%) command: firefox-esr pid: 2633 cpu: 31.7%
3: mem: 69.1 MiB (14.2%) command: firefox-esr pid: 2719 cpu: 0.9%
4: mem: 45.1 MiB (9.2%) command: firefox-esr pid: 2676 cpu: 0.3%
5: mem: 33.5 MiB (6.8%) command: yad pid: 3217 cpu: 0.9%
Info:
Processes: 133 Uptime: 5m Init: runit v: N/A runlevel: 2 default: 5
Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 running in: roxterm
inxi: 3.0.36

WIFI SWITCH
There is a switch on the computer, it didn’t appear to want to do anything last time but seems to have worked now? Maybe I restarted the computer, it seems like I have to press it every time I turn the computer on. I’ve configured the wifi but it just doesn’t seem to want to connect to it? I do now have 2 internet graphics in the bottom right of my screen though; one for eth1 which I presume is my ethernet as it’s been connected the longest, and one for eth0 which I’m therefore presuming is the wifi. Eth0 current rate flickers between 0 and a few hundred B/s, says it’s transferred 302KiB in and 4701B out, but when I unplug the ethernet it can’t find any web pages. A few more B/s are transferred and the ethernet graphic goes dead but when I try to load a page it says server not found. When I set it up I didn’t put in an IP address or anything into the red boxes, presuming that it would find them itself from the router? Do I need to fill all of those in?

lspci gives me this;
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC’97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC’97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
02:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): LSI Corporation FW322/323 [TrueFire] 1394a Controller (rev 61)
02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Limited BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01)
02:06.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)
02:09.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller

I have now updated the system, what is the lightest browser available? It’s struggling with firefox if I have more than one tab open, which is to be expected as the mod said.

[Member fungalnet]

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fatmac wrote:

Try running
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

When installing from local and you have not updated the database the pkg manager doesn’t see the dependencies available locally and doesn’t have a db to seek them from the repositories. Maybe dpkg -i will give you a bit more feedback. If the local pkg is different from the version on the repositories it will also throw such errors as some of its dependencies may no longer be available on the repository, even if you have updated/upgraded.

Less than 512 is 256, I don’t think they made anything in between, unless you are reporting the ram available after boot.

Wifi, as others mentioned there may be a switch somewhere, possibly with an antenna symbol next to it. ((i))
There could have been an external wifi that is missing, and on a rare occasion there is a way to turn wifi off from bios and someone had it turned off. When you are low on ram wifi takes a toll by having to load extra firmware and wpa_supplicant or similar software to use wifi. So it might be a good thing to have it off.

It would be essential to have 2-4GM swap space for a system low on ram to avoid running on the limit and crashing which can corrupt your disk.
Dillo or Midori may be the most browser you can run with low ram. Midori may be better but it is still heavy and uses zeitgeist which I hate and distrust. Brave seems like a pretty light chrome clone browser, with the ability to turn many features off to have it run even lighter. Avoid many tabs.

But make sure you have swap before you engage in any browsing. I highly recommend a swap partition instead of a file and use the resume=..uuid.swap.partition.. function on the boot loader.

anti-X - Adélie - obarun - systemd Free Space

[Moderator caprea]

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lzzye, when posting something like inxi -v8 could you click the “code” button (above the text field )before and after the output ?
This will make it easier to read, like this.

Network:
Device-1: Broadcom Limited BCM4401 100Base-T vendor: Wistron driver: b44
v: 2.0 port: 2000 bus ID: 02:05.0 chip ID: 14e4:4401
Device-2: Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network driver: ipw2200
v: 1.2.2kmprq port: 2000 bus ID: 02:06.0 chip ID: 8086:4220
IF: eth0 state: down mac: 00:0e:35:2d:68:72
IF-ID-1: eth1 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full
mac: 00:0a:e4:25:67:ab
IP v4: 192.168.1.87/24 type: dynamic scope: global
broadcast: 192.168.1.255
IP v6: fe80::20a:e4ff:fe25:67ab/64 scope: link
WAN IP: 86.183.30.114

There is another user with an Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] , who coudn’t get connman (the network-manager in antiX) to work and had to use ceni.You are might in the same boat.
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/im-clueless-on-how-get-wifi-working-on-32bit-antix19-full/
(I wonder if this is because this card always uses etho1 instead of wlan0.)

Is there a reason why you are not using the newest version of antiX, which would be antiX-19.1_386-base.iso or antiX-19.1_386-full.iso for the full release, but the runit-version ?
(I know the download-side is confusing in time)

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