[SOLVED] Why is wlan0 blocked & DNS server doesn’t work in 19.2

[Anonymous]

In 19.2, I discovered that the wireless is (pre)blocked by rfkill. So I unblocked with

sudo rfkill unblock all

then reconfigured the network using Cine. So now I’m on my local network, but cannot get beyond the router. I can ping the gateway at 192.168.1.254, which is usually also the local DNS when you grab your IP address using DHCP.

Somewhere, I read a suggestion to populate the DNS field with 8.8.8.8, which seems like a ridiculous suggestion, as this is never required with any other version of Linux.

19.1 worked fine, and I (thankfully) still have a copy of the ISO. It seems like 19.2 is not ready for prime time.

[Moderator BobC]

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anticapitalista posted fixed ISO files for a WiFi problem, so I would suggest making sure you are working from the fixed one, and follow his instructions.

Myself, I boot up and immediately connect with the connman version, turn on wifi, which maybe unblocks it, i don’t know, and then when i see the scan list, i click to connect to it, etc. I had troubles when I tried it with ceni. See threads by AABB on the subject.

[Anonymous]

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Thanks, I had thought I was working from the most recent version. Connman seems to be disabled by default.

[Moderator BobC]

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Just to be sure, I downloaded a fresh copy of antiX-19.2 at https://sourceforge.net/projects/antix-linux/files/Final/antiX-19/antiX-19.2_x64-full.iso/download and booted it up from flashdrive, clicked the eth1 monitor window (3rd one to the left of the date on the bottom status bar), and that brought up connman. I turned wifi on. The scan list came up. I clicked the wireless tab. I clicked the router I wanted to connect to. I clicked connect. I typed in the password. I clicked ok. It went online and works.

PS: i was typing when you posted that. Hopefully you will get it working ok.

• This reply was modified 3 years ago by BobC.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Read this post – https://www.antixforum.com/forums/reply/34188/

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

antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.

[Anonymous]

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Thank you, BobC and anticapitalista. Now I can explain the discrepancies between your results and my own.

In 19.2 connman is *only* included in the full ISO, not in the base, or, I assume, core. As BobC explained, connman disables the soft-block, and correctly sets up the Internet for me. I can ping the router, or an outside address, or update the APT, etc.

It is not clear to me why wlan is soft-blocked, but I have no issue, since I can easily unblock it. What is less clear is why wpa_supplicant would *already* be running in the background, as it is useless without being properly configured.

In 19.1, connman was available on the base ISO, and it was the first tool I used to configure the network, so I never ran into the other issues.

I know full-well how to manually configure wpa_supplicant, but I although I could access my wireless (after first killing the running process), I could never get past the router to the outside world. This means that only the full ISO enables me to get online, via running connman.

There *is* a way! I followed the hints provided by BobC and anticapitalista. A few hacks are involved, and I will try to follow up later. Thank you again!

Thanks, and I hope these comments are helpful.

~James

[Moderator BobC]

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Next time please say what version you are using and what you are running it on if you are having problems to make it easier to help.

I downloaded a fresh copy of https://sourceforge.net/projects/antix-linux/files/Final/antiX-19/antiX-19.2.1_386-base.iso/download and loaded it to a flashdrive using Live USB maker from Control Centre Disks tab.

I booted it, took the defaults and the IceWM desktop came up. I right clicked the Network Icon at the bottom on the taskbar next to the Volume icon. I left clicked WiFi on and Wired off. I then left clicked the Network icon and held it down, and in a few seconds the scan list came up. I moused up to my connection and let go, and the password prompt came up. I left clicked into the box, typed in the password and clicked Apply, and it connected.

Maybe that will work on yours, too…

PS: I looked at ~/.desktop-session/startup and it runs connman-ui-gtk to put the network icon in the tray. When 19 was in Alpha I had troubles trying to do it all manually, and since connman was pretty efficient memory wise, I switched to always using it. I can’t help with the manual route on 19.

• This reply was modified 3 years ago by BobC.

[Anonymous]

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BobC, the hints from you and anticapitalista helped me achieve my objective. I didn’t mention the full vs base to start with because I didn’t realize at first that connman was missing from base. I’ll try to come back later and write a short tutorial. it just takes a few simple hacks.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

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Yes, this works! It requires a few more simple hacks, like unblobking wlan and killing wpa_supplicant prior to using cine. I’m very impressed with the product and the support.

Thank you. ~James

[Moderator BobC]

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Please post it when you can. It’s always good to have more than one way to do things as long as its been tested to work reliably. I was looking at Ceni one time, and if I recall, it was a big script.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Anonymous wrote:

BobC, the hints from you and anticapitalista helped me achieve my objective. I didn’t mention the full vs base to start with because I didn’t realize at first that connman was missing from base. I’ll try to come back later and write a short tutorial. it just takes a few simple hacks.

Thanks!

Connman IS installed on base. base uses connman-ui-gtk (gui) but full uses cmst as its gui.

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

antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.

[Anonymous]

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anticapitalista wrote:

antix-user wrote:

BobC, the hints from you and anticapitalista helped me achieve my objective. I didn’t mention the full vs base to start with because I didn’t realize at first that connman was missing from base. I’ll try to come back later and write a short tutorial. it just takes a few simple hacks.

Thanks!

Connman IS installed on base. base uses connman-ui-gtk (gui) but full uses cmst as its gui.

My bad. You’re correct! I’ve learned so much in just a few days! I was *so* close… all I had needed to do was setup my resolv.conf. I’ve gotten so spoiled by distros which do this for me, I had forgotten the basics. antiX is like a tinkertoy set for kids. I hope I can contribute in some way. Thanks again for the guidance.

~James

[Anonymous]

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[Tutorial: Using Cine instead of ConnMan to get online]

Note: This procedure is intended for base-ISO users. Removing connman is not recommended in the full-ISO.

Boot up antiX. When you get to the main desktop, enter these commands in a terminal:

sudo apt-get --purge autoremove connman -y
sudo rfkill unblock all
sudo rm /etc/resolv.conf #probably got removed on line 1 above
sudo ln -s /run/resolvconf/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf
sudo killall wpa_supplicant

Now click on Cine from the Control Centre, Network, and select “Reconfigure wlan0”. Click on “Scan”, choose your network from the list, then enter the pre-shared key, and click on “Accept”. Click “Accept” again, and run-parts will bring up your network. Click “Exit”, then close Control Centre.

Test your connection with

ping yahoo.com

or some other way, like

sudo apt-get update

The next time you bootup, if you’ve enabled persistence, you’ll already be online! I had to reconfigure one extra time before the persistence “kicked in”. Let me know how this works for you.

[Member betman]

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@antix-user thank you very much! The tutorial saved my day.

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