(Solved) Wireless Problem

[Member greyowl]

I am having problems with the wifi on my Dell Latitude D620 laptop running antiX 21.
I have always used a cable with it, but I would like to also have the wireless working.
Conman is showing the wireless as connected.
The internet is extremely slow and times out on most sites. It will open antiX forum site after a 30 sec wait. It will not open gmail or news sites. With a cable, sites open in 2 to 5 seconds.

Below is the inxi -F:

user@antix1:~
$ inxi -F
System:
  Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.9.0-294-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 
  Desktop: IceWM 2.9.4 Distro: antiX-21_x64-full Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 
Machine:
  Type: Portable System: Dell product: Latitude D620 v: N/A 
  serial: <superuser required> 
  Mobo: Dell model: 0FT292 serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Dell v: A07 
  date: 12/18/2006 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 0% condition: 0.0/57.7 Wh (0.1%) volts: 8.7 min: 11.1 
CPU:
  Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 T7200 bits: 64 type: MCP cache: 
  L2: 4 MiB 
  Speed: 1000 MHz min/max: 1000/2000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1000 2: 1333 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Mobile 945GM/GMS 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics 
  driver: i915 v: kernel 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: intel 
  resolution: 1440x900~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945GM v: 1.4 Mesa 20.3.5 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio 
  driver: snd_hda_intel 
  Device-2: Tenx USB AUDIO type: USB 
  driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-294-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express 
  driver: tg3 
  IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:18:8b:bf:78:38 
  Device-2: Broadcom BCM4311 802.11a/b/g driver: b43-pci-bridge 
  IF-ID-1: wlan0 state: up mac: 00:19:7d:99:70:94 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 74.53 GiB used: 6.62 GiB (8.9%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HTS541680J9SA00 size: 74.53 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 69.11 GiB used: 6.62 GiB (9.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 3.75 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) 
  dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 67.0 C mobo: N/A sodimm: SODIMM C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 
Info:
  Processes: 170 Uptime: 3h 36m Memory: 2.93 GiB used: 1.4 GiB (47.9%) 
  Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.06

• This topic was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by greyowl.
• This topic was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by greyowl.

Dell Latitude D620 laptop with antiX 22 (64 bit)

[Member madibi]

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sudo rfkill unlock -all
sudo apt purge firmware-b43-installer
sudo apt update
sudo apt install firmware-b43-installer
sudo apt reinstall firmware-b43-installer
sudo modprobe -r b43
sudo modprobe b43

I had same symptoms and now it works properly 🙂

[Member greyowl]

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@madibi
I followed your instructions.
Amazing!!
It works perfectly now.
Thank you so much.

Dell Latitude D620 laptop with antiX 22 (64 bit)

[Member olsztyn]

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greyowl wrote:

@madibi
I followed your instructions.
Amazing!!
It works perfectly now.
Thank you so much.

Sounds like procedure figured out by madibi should have permanent place on my list of solutions…
Great to know…

Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters

[Member greyowl]

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Yes, I will be saving this solution as well
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Dell Latitude D620 laptop with antiX 22 (64 bit)

[Member madibi]

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@Anticapitalista and @DEVELOPMENT STAFF

Dear,
this is the 4th time that I find this issue connected with b43 wifi (there is another identical post in MX linux forum).
My guess is that this problem is connected with Antix 21, in fact with 17 and 19 I didn’t noticed it.
I suggest that may be this is a topic that you can solve in the next release.
Many thx in advance for your job and this fantastic distro.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Just to clarify – is this issue only with the 4.9 kernel on antiX-21 or the 4.9 and 5.10?
Also, is it an issue running live, installed or both?

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

antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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BTW are you sure it is

sudo rfkill unlock -all ?

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antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.

[Member madibi]

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In my case, for sure it is 4,9 kernel
According to my experiments, the live doesnt work at all. After installation it works, very very slowly.

I’ve just done a try with the 5,10 kernel and on my acer extensa 5620z the prob is the same: I don’t even see the my wifi lan.

As far as “sudo rfkill unlock -all”, it is what worked for me (and I don’t know, only suppose, what it means)

I made a collage of the various solutions on the various forums – mainly those of ubuntu- and this is the sequence that I have seen work

At the moment for me is difficult to produce an inxi output. In case you need it, in 3h i’ll do for you

Thx for your attention

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Thanks

sudo rfkill unlock -all
rfkill: invalid option -- 'a'
Try 'rfkill --help' for more information.

Perhaps you meant

sudo rfkill unblock all

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[Member madibi]

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Yes, you are right.
It was a typo of mine re-writing the above mentioned command in my notes.
I apologize

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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No worries and thanks again for the fix.

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