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JohanS
I have a Budget-computer with only 32 GB harddrive . It is a laptop of model “Asus E402”. This was the only computer i could afford two years ago. However it includes a WIFI-curcuit / (or is it called WIFI-adapter). I was locking for an OS that is small enought to boot to ram. I did try Lubuntu but it didnt work to ram. However when i run Lubuntu from the USB it works good (and the wifi-connection also work). Since my hope is to find a Linux-distro small enough to bot to RAM-memory i downloaded Antix 19.2 of the flavour “base”. I did install it to a USB-stick, and i was surprised that it included multiple choices of window-manager.
I did boot to the default choice of windows manager (ice-wm) because I hoped it was the “lightest”. But I had problems when i tried to connect to my WIFI-router. When i ran this “Ceni” under control center, It was shown a strange message “rfkill: WLAN soft blocked”. I spent a lot of time searching on google and this forum, but the matches from my search (with word WIFI), did refer to something called conman (or similar). I could not find anything called conman in the antix Control center (after choosing category “Network”. The options shown are this “Network interfaces, CENI” and the option “WPA supplicant configurator”, but that ” supplicant configurator ” can not find any WIFI-adapter at all. Is it because I am using Antix Base that i cant find this “conman”??? or would it help to change windows manager?
(My first thought was , Maybe they omit WIFI-support in the base-edition to save “space” (megabytes), but quite fast i realized that is not a logical point of view, I mean why on earth use Megabytes for multiple windows-managers if you really want to make a small “Linux-edition”, and if you are so eager to save space that you dont include WIFI-support??? ). Im asking this because I thought the interface was great (this ice-wm), simple and intuitive. Do I have to download a bigger Antix-flavour just to be able to use my computers WIFI??? (My harddrive is almost full and everytime i start Windows i am bombed with small windows complaining about to little space to upgrade). By the way. What is the purpose of this icon called “WPA supplicant configurator”???Attachments:
christophe
Hi, JohanS. Welcome to the antiX forum!
I’m pressed for time right now, but check out these previous posts:
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/how-to-search-for-a-solution-when-you-have-a-antix-problem/#post-1543
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/short-essential-how-to-list-for-the-complete-linux-newbie/
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/cannot-get-wifi-to-work/And post back with your computer info (from the top post above), if you still haven’t found your solution… we’re a very friendly & helpful lot, here.
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seaken64
Welcome JohanS.
Yes, the Base version does support WiFi networking. I have used Ceni successfully many times to activate the WiFi interface but the current favorite is Connman. As I understand it you can’t have both of these tools running at the same time. One or the other.
It sounds like you may have a driver problem. When you had Lubuntu working what driver was loaded?
Can you post your system info? Using “inxi -Fxz” at command line and then copy and paste to a file and then paste to this forum from your working system.
Here’s a video from Dolphin_Oracle about settings for WiFi in AntiX-19:
Seaken64
- This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by seaken64.
- This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by anticapitalista. Reason: shrunk video
BobC
Did you say you had 19.2 or 19.2.1? If I recall, antiX base 19.2 had wifi issues.
It looks like you didn’t install yet. Down at the bottom over towards the right of Roxterm and to the left of the speaker and yellow battery monitor is the Wifi icon. I bet you didn’t notice it or try it? If you run Ceni, then neither will work.
If true, and you have 19.2.1, try shutting all the way down, then reboot into antiX again, and use the wifi icon at the bottom to get it going. Right click the two arrows, and left click WiFi to turn it on. Now left click the icon again and hold it down. It should pop up a list of available networks. Give it a few seconds to fill the list. Move to the one you want and then let up the left button. It should pop up the password prompt. Type it in and click apply. You should see some yellow and red vertical bars in the wifi network monitor to the right of there, and the little x next to the arrows on the icon will disappear. If you don’t get a list, sometimes you need to install to the hard drive before it will come up if the driver for your wifi didn’t get recognized immediately. That happens on one old laptop I have.
If you didn’t have 19.2.1, I’m not sure, but the easy answer is to get it, or connect via ethernet to update and dist-upgrade if the above doesn’t work. I don’t have 19.2 base to try it anymore.
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I’m not sure if the video is going to be correct. If it looks completely different and doesn’t work try this…
Did you say you had 19.2 or 19.2.1? If I recall, antiX base 19.2 had wifi issues.
It looks like you didn’t install yet. Down at the bottom over towards the right of Roxterm and to the left of the speaker and yellow battery monitor is the Wifi icon. I bet you didn’t notice it or try it? If you run Ceni, then neither will work.
If true, and you have 19.2.1, try shutting all the way down, then reboot into antiX again, and use the wifi icon at the bottom to get it going. Right click the two arrows, and left click the WiFi button to turn it on. Now left click the icon again and hold it down. It should pop up a list of available networks. Give it a few seconds to fill the list. Keep holding the left button down and move to the one you want and then let up the left button. It should pop up the passphrase prompt. Type it in and click apply. You should see some yellow and red vertical bars in the wifi network monitor to the right of there, and the little x next to the arrows on the icon will disappear. If you don’t get a list, sometimes you need to install to the hard drive before it will come up if the driver for your wifi didn’t get recognized immediately. That happens on one old laptop I have.
If you didn’t have 19.2.1, I’m not sure, but the easy answer is to get it, or connect via ethernet to update and dist-upgrade if the above doesn’t work. I don’t have 19.2 base to try it anymore.
ex_Koo
@johans
Have a look at the below post it helped me. rokytnji has added to it as well post #39153.
Xecure
As others have suggested above, check if you are running antiX base 19.2.1
A note that may help you in the future. Most apps can be found using the “App Select” program (Menu > App Select).
If you search for connman in App Select you could have found it, even if it not present in the control center.
Once you are connected, update your system. This should fix the missing Connman in Control Centre.antiX Live system enthusiast.
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