Wifi yes – but no Internet

[Member Maaartin]

Hi everyone!

I got my WiFi connected but I can’t use the Internet.

“” cmst Critical Error
Unable to find a connection to the system bus.
cmst will not be able to communicate with connman””

I’m using Ceni.
Any ideas?

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https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/wifi-with-connman-antix-19-2/

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[Member Xecure]

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In Control Centre, Network, click Select Wifi Application, then click ceni OR connman (one of them). It will configure everything else so they work properly.

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[Member Maaartin]

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Oh thanks, I did all that and the result is that my working WiFi (shown in and out on the dashboard) has gone and the critical error remains. There was no soft block either.
Connman won’t work.

More ideas anyone?

[Member Xecure]

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For ceni connected but internet not working:
– Make a new resolv.conf symlink

sudo rm /etc/resolv.conf
sudo ln -s /run/resolvconf/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf

– Check internet connection again. If not working, remove the connman service, stop connman, restart networking

sudo service connman stop
sudo update-rc.d connman remove
sudo service networking restart

Is this still antiX 19.4?

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[Member Maaartin]

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Right, so after reinstalling connman and having no luck, I used the WiFi chooser to re-elect Ceni and boom!
Everything is now working correctly.
Im quite confused now but relieved.
Wonder why the WiFi drivers were disabled out if the box too.

Anyway, time to try out AntiX!

[Member Maaartin]

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So what did I learn?
The WiFi connection chooser is actually a router, not for connection to the house wlan but for internal connection to the Internet. What a mess!
Having both Connman and Ceni operational without clearly knowing that, is plain wrong. The possibility of connecting to the Access point without internal connection is for what?
One should be greyed out according to choice, or better still, not visible till the WiFi chooser opens.
No wonder it’s necessary to make ‘help’ Videos for people falling into this trap.
I hope the devs read this.
Thanks for help.

[Member ModdIt]

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Maartin,
the mess is not antiX and not fault of devs.

There are myriad computer designs on the market, each with own quirks, the mess as you call it is
at least getting users connected to the net. Read in other forums, in some you would have been told to RTFM….

Here we look for solutions, usually find them even if they are not perhaps the optimum which could possibly be acheived
with a million dollar budget.
Possibly because take a look at the disgusting creation called windoze, about 15 slug slow GB on disk
without applications like office. That was created with endless budget.

And if you have a better solution to the present wifi chooser, we are all waiting….

[Member Xecure]

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Incompatibilities with connman and resolvconf is a long standing issue. The problem is related to a bug from a long time ago inside (from connman itself). We proposed a fix and deployed the fixed connman, but it brought too many issues with users current configuration (there was a bit of a drama), so the fix was removed. Now, the workaround is using antix-wifi-switch.

On antiX 21, the fix is already applied (enforced) and compatibility of connman and resolvconf is good now. With this change, antix-wifi-switch is no longer needed.

I proposed the same fix on Debian, as a bug report, but there was no comment there. I think antiX21 is the first to bring this fix out of the box.

The help videos were also related to old connman and cmst problems. Thy will also be forgotten (I hope) in the next antiX release.

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[Member Maaartin]

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ModdIt wrote:

And if you have a better solution to the present wifi chooser, we are all waiting….

Thanks for your reply.
My suggestion is in my answer.
Simoly don’t offer a configuration method that does not connect to the Internet. That’s the mess of it, whosoever is responsible.

[Member Maaartin]

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Xecure wrote:

The help videos were also related to old connman and cmst problems. Thy will also be forgotten (I hope) in the next antiX release.

Thank you for your help.
I’m using this for an old Dell Pebtium M Laptop wich needs 32 bit without PAE.
Now I’ve got it working, the rest seems a great system.
Just hoping 32bit continues.
Cheers.

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don’t offer a configuration method that does not connect to the Internet. That’s the mess of it.

In my experience, I look after quite a few devices and installations, you want the impossible.

The real mess is often in the hardware, I have had several devices, netbooks laptops some about
12 years old several not so old which I was unable to prepare for other users with need for wifi.

Changing the WIFI card for an intel device was an immediate cure for the problem.
I also have a couple of USB dongles which are usable as a temporary fix in most stubborn cases.

When win 10 came along I was given a lot of perfectly good devices which stopped working
correctly due lack of drivers, users/owners were really upset as in most cases the update was
remotely started by MS.
Anyone who says that does not happen, I logged in to my car diag device with win 7 PRO,
started working and it began an automatic non stoppable update. Wonderful as it immediaetly
soft bricked my ODB device for which no win10 software is available to date.

I have only utter contempt for Micr soft.

[Member newuser]

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hi, I’m having problems from some time ago, not only on my own system but on the usb live version as well. firstly I thought was some problem with resolvconf. I’ve manage to restart the network by running

sudo pkill wpa* # killing wpa_supplicant
sudo printf 'nameserver 1.1.1.1\nnameserver 1.0.0.1\n' > /etc/resolv.conf
sudo networking restart 

I put this on /etc/rc.local
but the network was too slow taking up 19 secs to bring up a video

then I tried to relink /etc/resolv.conf to /run/resolvconf/resolv.conf and restarted networking service.

after doing this it could load the same video in 6 secs.

then, I did this:

Xecure wrote:

For ceni connected but internet not working:
– Make a new resolv.conf symlink

sudo rm /etc/resolv.conf
sudo ln -s /run/resolvconf/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf

– Check internet connection again. If not working, remove the connman service, stop connman, restart networking

sudo service connman stop
sudo update-rc.d connman remove
sudo service networking restart

Is this still antiX 19.4?

I rebooted the machine several times and I saw the link /etc/resolv.conf has been restored to /run/connman/resolv.conf even when connman was not running

redoing the link and restarting the network could not work this time.

so I ended with another script paced in rc.local:

rfkill unblock 0
rfkill unblock 1
sleep 1
ip addr flush dev wlan0
sleep 1
/etc/init.d/networking restart

Is good to know if there is another aproach without doing all this. I’m running hannie schaft

this is my /etc/network/interfaces:
# interfaces that start automatically
auto lo wlan0
iface lo inet loopback
iface wlan0 inet static
address 192.168.1.10
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
network 182.168.1.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
dns-nameserver 192.168.1.1
wpa-psk 6xbH7XhX63N
wpa-ssid kap

[Member Xecure]

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@newuser, quick edit as soon as possible your previous post and remove the wireless password. Better do it before google indexes the page.

About your issue.

On the live system, unless you use the boot parameter disable=c (to disable connman from autostarting), or purge connman from the system, connman will autostart.

Back to resolvconf, after stopping and removing the connman service, and symlinking /etc/resolv.conf to /run/resolvconf/resolv.conf, restart the resolvconf service
sudo service resolvconf restart
so you can check how it is working without the need to reboot.

On the installed system, after removing the connman service, it should not restart at all on reboot.
sudo update-rc.d connman remove
should remove all connman init links in /etc/rc.dX so that it doesn’t autostart connman on reboot. If it continues to happen, try the antix-wifi-switch script to again re-select ceni so that it keeps being default. You don’t need t reconfigure ceni, and if it doesn’t autoconnect, restart the networking service as you did before and it should reconnect.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by Xecure.

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[Member newuser]

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thanks! the info above in the /etc/network/interfaces is fake, just as a concept.

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