topic title: internet connection problem
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scratch
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
#1
First up, hello to everybody here.
Today I installed Antix on my old laptop and love it so far. Great number of applications and runs really nice on this old machine __{{emoticon}}__
But I have a problem - i'm using usb wireless card which is detected and working but it can't see my wireless connection at home... Around me - there's one more connection which is found but mine isn't. It's not hidden - i'm sure about that.
I tried all the network managers that are included in Antix but had no luck with none of them.
So, help would be appreciated __{{emoticon}}__
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oldhoghead
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Joined: 01 Oct 2007
#2
Welcome to antiX,

In terminal run:

inxi -F

and paste results here so we can see what nic you have

cheers,
oldhoghead
Posts: 4
scratch
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
#3
Hi oldhoghead
this is what comes out

aristotelbigliov@beagle:~$ inxi -F
System: Host beagle Kernel 2.6.32-1-mepis-smp i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-M8.5 Marek Edelman 11 April 2010
CPU: Single core Pentium III (Coppermine) (UP) cache 256 KB flags (sse) bmips 1592.49 clocked at 796.076 MHz
Graphics: Card ATI Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x X.Org 1.6.5 Res: 1024x768@85.0hz
GLX Renderer Software Rasterizer GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1-DEVEL Direct Rendering Yes
Audio: Card ALi M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device driver ALI 5451 at port 9000 BusID: 00:06.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.21
Network: Card Intel 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 driver e100 v: 3.5.24-k2-NAPI at port 7000 BusID: 00:0a.0
Disks: HDD Total Size: 10.1GB (17.2% used) 1: /dev/sda IBM 10.1GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 8.3G used: 1.7G (21%) fs: ext3 ID:swap-1 size: 1.10GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Info: Processes 83 Uptime 3 min Memory 46.3/120.9MB Runlevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.4.9

my wi-fi usb is"tp-link" tl-wn321g
which i don't see under"network"
is it possible that it is not installed?

one more thing - when I use RutilT WLAN manager and the wifi card is unpluged - it says"can't find any wireless network interface code -3"
when the card is pluged it says"can't get frequency/channel code: 22"
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oldhoghead
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Joined: 01 Oct 2007
#4
Scratch,

I am not really familiar with using rutlit, as it does not do wpa, I generally use ceni which does work very well, but that aside, your wireless is not being detected.
Could you run in terminal

lsusb

and post results

cheers,
oldhoghead
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scratch
Joined: 05 Jul 2010

06 Jul 2010, 13:43 #5

aristotelbigliov@beagle:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 148f:2573 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2501USB Wireless Adapter
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
aristotelbigliov@beagle:~$
anticapitalista
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#6

========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/rt73"
linktext was:"http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/rt73"
====================================


and try steps 6-9 as firmware-ralink is already installed.
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scratch
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
#7
anticapitalista wrote:
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/rt73"
linktext was:"http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/rt73"
====================================


and try steps 6-9 as firmware-ralink is already installed.
still no luck... can't see my network
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oldhoghead
Site Admin
Joined: 01 Oct 2007
#8
scratch,

what is the output when you in terminal as root

modprobe rt73usb

then

iwconfig

cheers,
oldhoghead