no wifi in frugal install

[Member Vincent17]

Hello,
I have a frugal install of 17.4 and cannot get wifi to connect. A full install on the same netbook connects without problem. I’d appreciate suggestions. Thanks

CENI
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wpa_supplicant: wpa-ssid "MySSID" -- OK
wpa_supplicant: wpa-psk ***** -- OK
wpa_supplicant: enabling network block 0 -- OK

/sbin/dhclient -4 -v -pf /run/dhclient.wlan0.pid -lf /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.wlan0.leases -I -df /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient6.wlan0.leases wlan0 	
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.3.5
Copyright 2004-2016 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:21:85:b6:85:be
Sending on   LPF/wlan0/00:21:85:b6:85:be
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
/bin/run-parts --exit-on-error --verbose /etc/network/if-up.d
run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/000resolvconf
run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/mountnfs
run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/upstart
run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/wpasupplicant

inxi -b
System:
  Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.9.160-antix.2-486-smp i686 bits: 32 Desktop: JWM 2.3.6 
  Distro: antiX-17.4.1_386-base Helen Keller 28 March 2019 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: MICRO-STAR product: U-100 v: Ver.001 serial: <root required> 
  Mobo: MICRO-STAR model: U-100 v: Ver.001 serial: <root required> 
  BIOS: American Megatrends v: 4.6.3 date: 10/06/2008 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 16.2 Wh condition: 16.7/24.4 Wh (68%) 
CPU:
  Single Core: Intel Atom N270 type: MT speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/1600 MHz 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Mobile 945GSE Express Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel 
  Display: server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: intel unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
  resolution: 1024x600~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945GME x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 2.1 Mesa 13.0.6 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8187SE Wireless LAN driver: rtl818x_pci 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 111.79 GiB used: 24.46 GiB (21.9%) 
Info:
  Processes: 128 Uptime: 11m Memory: 1.96 GiB used: 85.7 MiB (4.3%) Shell: bash 
  inxi: 3.0.29 

ifconfig
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wlan0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        ether 00:21:85:b6:85:be  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 40  bytes 5400 (5.2 KiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 40  bytes 6200 (6.0 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

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