Hi, I had a similar experience with the wireless connection not persisting when rebooting. I had installed the STA driver for my laptop running Linux Mint Fluxbox. A wise guy in a forum told me to do the following:

"if the driver then works, but doesn't survive a reboot, you need to add the line:
wl
to /etc/modules
then it will load the drivers at system boot up.
To bring wireless back manually all you need to type *should* be:

sudo modprobe wl

just in case.

That solved my problem. I don't know if it can be also helpful for you now. I'm just a newbie __{{emoticon}}__

I continue to be impressed with all the different ways that we can make antiX useful. Pedro, secipolla,drg, anti, anyone I missed, thanks so much for sharing. This is one great community and an awesome foundation for building any system. As for me, I haven't gone X-less so far in my excursions, though I do frequently use X-less browsers that I incorporate into script oriented tools for doing things like grabbing short, text based weather forecasts, stock market information, sports news clips, and other information that is entirely text based.

As far as graphical environments, thanks to Harold Hope's great smxi tool, I've whipped together quite a few window manager, desktop, browser, and application environments, building on top of all three antiX starting points: the original (full), the base, and over the past year or so, the core. All have worked out extremely well. Thanks for all of the great ideas and techniques I have found in these pages; they have been an inspiration, plus it's been fun, as well as educational. I try to point friends over here as often as I can, especially those indicating an interest in tweaking with their systems to experiment and learn. We have a great environment for those kinds of people, and even at my age, I am STILL one of them! __{{emoticon}}__