Slow boot looking for eth0 and no Fn keys working [SOLVED]

[Member Aleph_Sev]

Hi friends,

I just installed the new Antix 19. Congratulations!!! looks very beautiful and responsive.

However a have two minor problems:

1- When boot stops a few seconds looking for eth0

2- The Fn keys are not working.

Any advice?

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[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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You have to give us more info about your hardware, antiX version (full, base 32/64 bit) etc.

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[Member Aleph_Sev]

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anticapitalista wrote:

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

Yes, yes, sorry.

I installed now the liquorix kernel, but the problem is the same with the standard kernel:

inxi -F
System:
  Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.20.0-16.2-liquorix-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 
  Desktop: IceWM 1.5.5+git20190610 
  Distro: antiX-19_x64-full Marielle Franco 16 October 2019 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Latitude E6430 v: 01 
  serial: <root required> 
  Mobo: Dell model: 0CPWYR v: A00 serial: <root required> BIOS: Dell v: A22 
  date: 02/21/2018 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 49.1 Wh condition: 49.1/57.7 Wh (85%) 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i7-3540M bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  L2 cache: 4096 KiB 
  Speed: 1254 MHz min/max: 1200/3001 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1196 2: 1196 
  3: 1196 4: 1196 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
  resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile v: 4.2 Mesa 18.3.6 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio 
  driver: snd_hda_intel 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.20.0-16.2-liquorix-amd64 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network driver: e1000e 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: b8:ca:3a:d7:09:24 
  Device-2: Broadcom Limited BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter 
  driver: wl 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: f4:b7:e2:c7:cc:1b 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 298.09 GiB used: 4.52 GiB (1.5%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD3200BPVT-75JJ5T0 
  size: 298.09 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 57.42 GiB used: 4.52 GiB (7.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda7 
  ID-2: swap-1 size: 7.96 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 48.0 C mobo: 38.0 C sodimm: 38.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2695 
Info:
  Processes: 170 Uptime: 23m Memory: 3.76 GiB used: 642.4 MiB (16.7%) 
  Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.36 
luis@antix1:~

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Check out this forum post:
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/upon-booting-dhcp-looks-for-eth0-network-which-slows-boot-time/

This fixed the issue for me.

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[Member Aleph_Sev]

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I did

#auto eth0 
#iface eth0 inet dhcp

without success

The massage here when boot is:

configuring network interfaces...ifup: waiting for lock on /run/network/ifstate.eth0

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Have you use connman ui to configure your wireless?

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[Member Aleph_Sev]

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anticapitalista wrote:

Have you use connman ui to configure your wireless?

Yes Anti, I have internet, everything is working well in my system except the Fn keys. This issue is that the system stops around 10-15 seconds on this line looking for something when boots.

configuring network interfaces...ifup: waiting for lock on /run/network/ifstate.eth0

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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I mean you should use connman ui to turn off wired.

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[Member Aleph_Sev]

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anticapitalista wrote:

I mean you should use connman ui to turn off wired.

I did without success.

(Exactly 48 seconds waiting for the eth0)

Any advice to enable the brightness Fn keys?

Anti, this release looks really astonishing!! Congratulations!!!

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Try using the files in the link.
Keep a copy of your old ones, just in case you need to re-use them.
Firstly, try /etc/init.d/networking and if that doesn’t solve the problem, add the interfaces file.

extra-core.tgz

About Fn keys, I don’t know – someone else will need to help you on this.

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anticapitalista wrote:

Try using the files in the link.
Keep a copy of your old ones, just in case you need to re-use them.
Firstly, try /etc/init.d/networking and if that doesn’t solve the problem, add the interfaces file.

extra-core.tgz

About Fn keys, I don’t know – someone else will need to help you on this.

Yes, working with the networking file! Thank you very much, Anti!!

Now waiting for a solution for the Fn keys. I’m going to go blind with so much light… 🙂

On this laptop is installed MX Linux 18.3, and everything is working fine. Maybe is there a solution from MX Linux?

Also in MX Linux the Liquorix 5.2 kernel is working fine, In Antix I have to use the 4.20 because I have not wifi with the 5.2.
Something is different in Antix.

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MX-18.3 is stretch based and antiX-19 is buster based so there lies the main difference.

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Aleph_Sev wrote:

2- The Fn keys are not working.

anticapitalista wrote:

About Fn keys, I don’t know – someone else will need to help you on this.

Aleph_Sev wrote:

Now waiting for a solution for the Fn keys

Maybe it is not that the FN key combinations are not working but that they aren’t configured for your Window Manager. Remember that in antiX you are using a Window Manager and not a Desktop Environment, so some things you need to configure them yourself.
I use to believe that xev was the command tool used to check what were the “key commands” related to a key combination, but I just tried it out for FN combinations and it doesn’t work as I remember.

Some time ago I configured my “keys” file for my window manager (fluxbox) to pick up FN + UP/DOWN to increase/decrease volume, and FN + RIGHT/LEFT to increase/decrease screen brightness. They weren’t configured initially.
I can see that IceWM (I am assuming you are using this window manager) now includes Increase/decrease volume as:

key "XF86AudioLowerVolume" amixer sset Master 5%-
key "XF86AudioRaiseVolume" amixer sset Master 5%+

These should be related to FN+(key) combination for your keyboard (for mine it is FN + UP/DOWN). Test it out. If this combination works for you but others don’t, it means that your FN keys are not working as you expected because they haven’t been set (yet).

For the increase/decrease brightness, add this piece of code to your keys file (I am assuming IceWM, with the file located in ~/.icewm/keys)

###Set brightness
key "XF86MonBrightnessDown" backlight-brightness -10
key "XF86MonBrightnessUp" backlight-brightness +10

Save, restart IceWM session and see if it works.

If this works, then you know that FN keys ARE working but are not configured in the Window Manager.

PD: Does anyone know of a terminal command to see how keystrokes are translated to key “commands” and trhat works with FN key combinations?

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[Member Aleph_Sev]

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Xecure wrote:

For the increase/decrease brightness, add this piece of code to your keys file (I am assuming IceWM, with the file located in ~/.icewm/keys)

###Set brightness
key “XF86MonBrightnessDown” backlight-brightness -10
key “XF86MonBrightnessUp” backlight-brightness +10

Save, restart IceWM session and see if it works.

Yes!! Thank you @Xecure!!

These two lines were missed on the Keys file on IceWM. Added and working!!!

Regards.

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