New user and WiFi [SOLVED]

[Member MikeA]

Hi All, Im Mike and I have been using Antix for the first time over the last couple of weeks, so far I absolutely love it and it has helped revive an old PC that I was otherwise going to take off for recycling!

I only have one small problem which I have had a quick look round the forum for and it is causing quite a bit of trouble – not sure what I have done but I have managed to lose the ability to connect to wifi. When I installed Antix, I used a live CD and connected to the internet through a USB dongle, a Buffalo Wireless USB dongle which has worked perfectly fine for the last two weeks or so. On powering up yesterday, when I go into Control Centre > Network > Connect Wirelessly (wicd) I just get a line in the middle of the box that says “No wireless networks found”. Interestingly, if I go into Control Centre > Network > Network Interfaces (ceni) and select the wlan0 wireless option, and then select the ‘scan’ option rather than ‘roam’ (ive never tried roam by the way) I get an option to choose a wireless network and it lists my wifi hub. So I know theres nothing wrong with the hardware, I just seem to have goosed it up somehow. Ive tried to connect to it and I get a terminal box appear that seems to go through a lot of things but ultimately doesnt result in my connecting to the internet. Interestingly, I tried to re-load from the live CD and even though it finds my wifi through the Connect Wirelessly option, it asks for the password repeatedly without accepting it (I know the password isnt wrong and that I am not entering it incorrectly as other live CDs such as Ubuntu will connect)

Im not particularly technical, just an enthusiastic amateur so any help on how I might restore the wifi on this machine would be really appreciated. I cannot connect it via a cable btw, its just too far away from the Wifi Box.

Im currently using a laptop to get on to this forum so can use this alongside the desktop. Is there a chat room I could use if thats any easier?

Thanks all!

• This topic was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by MikeA.

[Member MikeA]

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Just as a follow up by the way, I bought a brand new TP-Link 600mb wifi dongle thinking that I could use that instead and I cant even get the system to recognise that so any help getting that one working instead, as its a lot faster than my Buffalo dongle, would be fantastic!

[Moderator BobC]

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in a terminal run

inxi -Fxz

and paste result here

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

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sudo ifconfig -a

Make sure wireless interface shown matches in WICD . Properties is in the taskbar on Wicd.

http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/pages/images/debian-jessie-xfce4-wicd-preferences-dialog.jpg

it is probably how you

not sure what I have done but I have managed to lose the ability to connect to wifi.

Wireless interface always changes when a wireless dongle is changed. Post the above post inxi command also in this thread.

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[Member MikeA]

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Hi and thanks for the responses – il try that second one however on the command entry, this is what I got:

CPU: Single core AMD Athlon 64 3700+ (-UP-) arch: K8 rev.10 cache: 1024 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2) bmips: 4790 speed: 2394 MHz (max)
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA G73 [GeForce 7600 GS] bus-ID: 02:00.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.19.2
drivers: nouveau (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1024×768@60.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NV4B
version: 2.1 Mesa 13.0.6 Direct Render: Yes
Audio: Card VIA VT8237A/VT8251 HDA Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 04:01.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.10.5-antix.3-amd64-smp
Network: Card-1: VIA VT6102/VT6103 [Rhine-II]
driver: via-rhine port: a400 bus-ID: 00:12.0
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Card-2: BUFFALO (formerly Mel ) WLI-U2-KG125S 802.11g Adapter [Broadcom 4320 USB]
usb-ID: 001-003
IF: null-if-id state: N/A mac: N/A
Drives: HDD Total Size: 150.0GB (4.6% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD1500HLFS size: 150.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 135G used: 4.5G (4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.15GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 41.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 40.0
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 3479 sys-1: 0
Info: Processes: 156 Uptime: 3 min Memory: 170.8/994.8MB
Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 6.3.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.4.121) inxi: 2.3.53
mike@antix1:~
$

[Member MikeA]

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UPDATE – FIXED!!!!!

Thank you so much for the pointers, I changed the entry in properties to Wlan0 rather than the gobbledegook that had managed to populate that line and it has sprang back into life!! Thanks so much for the pointer as I would never have found that by myself!

I can now get on with learning more about this lovely looking system!

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