WI-FI don’t work

[Member whysoserious]

Hi! I’ve instaled antix on a old netbook (Compaq CQ10 Mini), everything works fine but i can’t get the wireless to work. It says that is soft and hard blocked, the computer has a button to turn on/off the wifi but it doesn’t work on Linux. What can i do here ?

[Member Xecure]

System information:
inxi -Fxz

Trying to enable wifi:
antix-wifi-switch --gui connman

If it still doesn’t work, check the output of:
rfkill list wifi

• This reply was modified 2 months ago by Xecure. Reason: fix typo

[Member whysoserious]

Thank you so much, its working now!

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

whysoserious wrote:

Thank you so much, its working now!

I have to be be serious here. How did you fix it? Please give lot’s of details. Thank you.

That way you help the next user with your problem.

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[Member seaken64]

Hi whysoserious. Welcome to antiX. I agree with Rokytnji. Please share with us how you got it to work and your “inxi -Fxz”. This helps future users who may have the same or similar equipment.

Thanks
Seaken64

[Member whysoserious]

I had my wi-fi hard and soft blocked, i figured that pressing on the wifi button on my netbook, unblocked the hard lock but still remained soft blocked.
I simply run the second command Xecure provided on the terminal (antix-wifi-switch –gui connman), asked for my password after run it and wifi was working.

Here is the log:

whysoserious@whysoserious-netbook:~
$ inxi -Fxz
System:
  Host: whysoserious-netbook Kernel: 4.9.235-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 
  compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.8.3 
  Distro: antiX-19.3_386-base Manolis Glezos 14 October 2020 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: Compaq Mini CQ10-100 
  v: 0493200000001C00000300000 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 1468 v: KBC Version 02.10 serial: <filter> 
  BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: 14680 Ver. F.01 date: 11/05/2009 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 21.7 Wh condition: 21.7/27.5 Wh (79%) 
  model: Hewlett-Packard Primary status: Full 
CPU:
  Topology: Single Core model: Intel Atom N270 bits: 32 type: MT 
  arch: Bonnell rev: 2 L2 cache: 512 KiB 
  flags: nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 bogomips: 6384 
  Speed: 1333 MHz min/max: 800/1600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1333 2: 800 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Mobile 945GSE Express Integrated Graphics 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: intel 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1024x600~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945GME x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 1.4 Mesa 18.3.6 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.235-antix.1-486-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard U98Z062.12 802.11bgn driver: ath9k v: kernel 
  port: cc00 bus ID: 01:00.0 
  IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR8132 Fast Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: atl1c v: 1.0.1.1-NAPI port: ec80 bus ID: 02:00.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 37.26 GiB used: 2.63 GiB (7.1%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST940210AS size: 37.26 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 34.43 GiB used: 2.63 GiB (7.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
  ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 52.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 129 Uptime: 1h 22m Memory: 992.4 MiB used: 100.6 MiB (10.1%) 
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 
  inxi: 3.0.36 
whysoserious@whysoserious-netbook:~
$ antix-wifi-switch --gui connman
Switching to Connman
Wi-Fi softblocked.
Enabling WIFI with connman
Restarting connman service just in case
[ ok ] Restarting Connection Manager:.
Enabling Wi-Fi...

Commands for making a wifi connections in connmanctl
----------------------------------------------------
    agent on
    enable wifi
    services
    connect wifi_<tab>
    [wait for connection to appear]
    quit
    ifconfig -s
----------------------------------------------------

Enabled wifi
resolv.conf current configuration: connman
Stopping all wpa_supplicant processes
Restoring sysvinit connman service
Restarting networking service
[....] Running /etc/init.d/networking restart is deprecated because it may not r[warnble some interfaces ... (warning).
[ ok ] Reconfiguring network interfaces... done.
Restarting connman service
[ ok ] Restarting Connection Manager:.
Adding cmst to startup
Launching cmst
cmst: no process found
qt5ct: using qt5ct plugin
qt5ct: D-Bus system tray: no
qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 2321, resource id: 10528547, major code: 40 (TranslateCoords), minor code: 0

• This reply was modified 1 month, 3 weeks ago by whysoserious.

[Member PPC]

For future reference (but this info probably won’t be needed in the next antiX version:

-If you can’t use your Wi-fi, do exactly what Xecure advised:

Open the terminal and paste there:

antix-wifi-switch --gui connman

If needed click through any windows that may pop up and enter your password.

Don’t want to use the terminal?
Menu > Run

and paste the above command there, close the warning that pops up and then click “ok”.

Probably the only cases in which this procedure won’t work will mostly be hardblocked wi-fi network cards (you have to unblock wi-fi using the button/slider/key combo needed) or devices that don’t have drivers (like some Atheros devices, I have one such wi-fi card). The odds are that, if your card works in one Linux distro, it probably will work in antiX (even if you have to manually install it’s drivers)

P.

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