[Solved] Install issue in old laptop with IDE to Msata SSD Adapter

[Member Irina060]

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The thread is interesting, I’ll try to follow some recommendations in there when I get home. Although my RAM is limited I used to browse the internet nicely (in windows using kmeleon) but no youtube tho. Only thing I have tried in Antix is dillo which works really well with a wired connection. I will try links2 with and without graphical mode and see if the machine likes it. But again, Im pretty new in the forum and in linux in general, I only know a bit about antix (19) as I used it for 2 weeks, but I did no configuration twicking or any adjustments. I’m looking forward to learn more 🙂

[Member PPC]

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@Irina060 – you can try links2 in graphical mode – antiX does provide a .desktop file to run it.
I use it all the time – I altered the .desktop file so every time I launch links2, the start page is a text only duckduckgo.com, but you can set it to google.com (amazingly Google looks much better on links than duckduckgo).
Every search engine I tested in links2 works, but most are horribly formatted – my advice is stick with ggd or google.
For browsing web pages that do not require a log-in ( like webmail, homebanking, etc) or stream video, links2 works almost 100% of the time – and about 90% of time time it renders the page in a confusing (but always readable) way.
You can browse antixforum.com using links2, but I never even tried to log in using it…
You can try the text only youtube front end included in antix or the exclent smtube – to stream Youtube videos.
If you wish to watch off-line videos on low powered machines, try installing and using xine media player (the package name is xine-ui ).
MuPDF renders PDF files great, on very low resources.
If you are into e-books there are even cli ebook (epub) readers.
You can use a word processor on the terminal (that imports from and saves to .odt) – WordGrinder
there are mp3 players, a calendar that run on the terminal too… I even wrote scripts to allow using on-line translators or cloud drives without requiring using a web browser (they are included in the ft10-transformation package )
If you want to amuse yourself there are even some games, like sudoku and snake, that you can play on the terminal… Some games that you can run on the terminal (I listed the names of the packages):
nethack-console nudoku nsnake ninvaders pacman4console curseofwar cataclysm-dda-curses vitetris

…all those apps make even the slowest computer somewhat usable on modern days.

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[Member ModdIt]

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Some sites show a lot of images so I switch to text mode for those. Search wise DDG is extremely well documented and searches
multiple sources. It also respects privacy so recommend to use it where possible. Qant is weird but works well too and offers
a table of language choices on thwe search page.
Below is somewhere in the long browser thread, set your screen resolution and put in /home/your username here/.bash_aliases
You will have to create the file, do so as user
alias links2g=’links2 -g -mode 1024×768 -http.fake-user-agent “Mozilla/5.0 (Linux x86_64; rv:98.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/98.0″‘
that starts in graphical mode
alias links2g=’links2 -mode 1024×768 -http.fake-user-agent “Mozilla/5.0 (Linux x86_64; rv:98.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/98.0″‘
This one without the -g in normal text mode.

[Member Irina060]

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Im going to take notes of these things. I can easily forget this kind of info as it is pretty technical and specific. Thanks for all the recommendations I will try everything and see what works best and let you guys know 🙂
Also I’d like to use this laptop for python programming, I know ram is low and cpu is slow but do you have any code editor recommendation? Geany looks fine but kinda meh, this may be a topic for another thread tho let me know and I’ll make one

[Member PPC]

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My advice? On a P III with 512mb of RAM? Stick with geany- there’s a reason it comes with antiX by default. It’s simple, yet powerful
Try one tip: first save the file you intend to work on and reopen it- so geany will display it according to the programming language you are using (I tried this only on bash)

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Maybe a good place to start. cos even some of the kids say its easy and well explained..
https://wiki.geany.org/howtos/check_python_code

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Irina060 wrote:

There is a xorg.conf file in etc/X11

It looks like this was created already during a live session. You can try to rename it to xorg.conf.bak
and also rename the live-blacklist.conf to live-blacklist.conf.bak

Hopefully it will then boot with the ati/mach64 drivers.
Unfortunately there’s always the risk the system doesn’t boot to X at all anymore, you have to boot then with a live-usb and rename the files again to bring it back to the current state.
But in any case, in general the vesa driver shows the worst performance.

Edit: I see no quick solution for the pcmicia wifi card, so it’s the best to open a new thread for it.

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[Member Irina060]

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I think ati drivers are working now. How much of an improvement should I see? Also ram usage is normally around 70-80mb at idle which is awesome
I did an inxi -zv7 as root this time to see if everything is fine now 🙂

inxi -zv7
System:
Kernel: 4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1
Desktop: IceWM 2.9.6 dm: N/A
Distro: antiX-21_386-base Grup Yorum 31 October 2021
base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: ACER product: TravelMate 520 v: -1 serial: <filter>
Mobo: ACER model: ALi Alladin Pro v: -1 serial: <filter> BIOS: ACER
v: 3.3 R01-A3vEN date: 08/14/2001
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 0.3 Wh (0.6%) condition: 53.3/53.3 Wh (100.0%)
volts: 14.8 min: 14.8 model: AS06 type: Li-ion serial: N/A
status: Charging
Memory:
RAM: total: 493.7 MiB used: 111.5 MiB (22.6%)
Array-1: capacity: 512 MiB note: est. slots: 2 EC: None
max-module-size: 256 MiB voltage: 3.3
Device-1: DM2 size: 256 MiB info: single-bank speed: N/A type: SDRAM
detail: synchronous bus-width: 64 bits total: 64 bits manufacturer: N/A
part-no: N/A serial: N/A
Device-2: CN22 size: 256 MiB info: single-bank speed: N/A type: SDRAM
detail: synchronous bus-width: 64 bits total: 64 bits manufacturer: N/A
part-no: N/A serial: N/A
CPU:
Info: Single Core model: Pentium III (Coppermine) bits: 32 type: MCP
arch: P6 III Coppermine rev: A cache: L1: 32 KiB L2: 256 KiB
bogomips: 1790
Speed: 895 MHz min/max: N/A volts: 1.6 V ext-clock: 100 MHz
Core speed (MHz): 1: 895
Flags: cmov cx8 de fpu fxsr mca mce mmx msr mtrr pae pge pse pse36 sep sse
tsc vme
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Rage Mobility AGP 2x Series vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: N/A bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:4c4d class-ID: 0300
Display: server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: ati,mach64
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1024×768~87Hz s-dpi: 96
OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.0.1 128 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.5
compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: ULi M5451 PCI AC-Link Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: snd_ali5451 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:06.0 chip-ID: 10b9:5451
class-ID: 0401
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: e100 v: 3.5.24-k2-NAPI port: 7000
bus-ID: 00:0a.0 chip-ID: 8086:1229 class-ID: 0200
IF: eth1 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: ULi M7101 Power Management [PMU] vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
type: network bridge driver: N/A port: 6050 bus-ID: 00:11.0
chip-ID: 10b9:7101 class-ID: 0680
Device-3: Qualcomm Atheros AR5212/5213/2414 Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: D-Link System D-Link AirPlus DWL-G650 driver: ath5k v: kernel
port: 8000 bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:0013 class-ID: 0200
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> scope: link
WAN IP: No WAN IP found. Connected to web? SSL issues? Try enabling dig
Bluetooth:
Message: No bluetooth data found.
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 3.64 GiB (1.5%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: SKC600MS256G size: 238.47 GiB
speed: <unknown> type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 0105 scheme: MBR
Floppy-1: /dev/fd0
Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: TOSHIBA model: DVD-ROM SD-C2402 rev: 1717
dev-links: cdrom,dvd
Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: none
state: running
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 232.93 GiB used: 3.64 GiB (1.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
label: rootantiX21 uuid: 6d56f1fd-ae01-4d53-aaa8-fdbe38894e03
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 768 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -1
dev: /dev/sda2 label: swapantiX uuid: 9ce7929b-e323-48c3-a480-24db78c5c814
Unmounted:
Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1
speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 55.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 133 Uptime: 2m wakeups: 3 Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5
default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Packages: apt: 1205
Shell: Bash (sudo) v: 5.1.4 running-in: x-terminal-emul inxi: 3.3.06

[Member madibi]

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@Irina

Device-3: Qualcomm Atheros AR5212/5213/2414 Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: D-Link System D-Link AirPlus DWL-G650 driver: ath5k v: kernel
port: 8000 bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:0013 class-ID: 0200
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> scope: link
WAN IP: No WAN IP found. Connected to web? SSL issues? Try enabling dig

Could you make your wifi working?
If yes how?
I still have a couple of these D-Link AirPlus DWL-G650, in my case they are pci cards (32 bit) and since 2008 they worked only with ndiswrapper.
Now, it’s a couple of years that they are taking the dust 🙂

[Member Irina060]

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To be honest, Im conected wiredly right now to make things faster. This a pcmcia card and it is giving me a hard time to make it work. Im still trying to figure it out because it doesnt want to work. I’ll let you know as soon I make mine work 🙂

[Member madibi]

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@Irina

Just in case you want to make a try, I still have somewhere the win drivers of my different wifi card, with the same base.
At least they should likely work with ndiswrapper.
In case I can send it to you
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[Member Irina060]

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I have some win setup for the drivers and built in dlink wifi software which made wonders. I dont know if they will work in antix, I dont know how to use ndiswrapper but I dont want to trouble anyone with that, I bet a quick google search will guide me. But what kind of drivers do you have? In which format?

[Member madibi]

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ndiswrapper is a linux program that uses the windows wifi drivers , for the wifi equipements that otherwise cannot work.
So I have an old win xp driver that some years ago worked both on antiX 17 and 19. I didn’t test it on 21 (ONLY 32 bit)

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[Member calciumsodium]

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Hi,
ndiswrapper is not compatible with antiX21, which has the Debian 11 bullseye.

[Member Irina060]

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Well Im sure I can make it work, and if not I will create a new thread 🙂

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