topic title: New to AntiX ... and a question ...
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des1517
Joined: 06 Jul 2012
#1
Hello all,

I'm new to AntiX and to Linux in general although I've been playing around with Lubuntu and Ubuntu for a couple of months.

Anyway ... I have an eleven year old Dell Inspiron 4100 I just installed AntiX on and everything seems great except for the wireless connection. For some reason it is not picking up the wireless network I'm on. I thought I needed to manually set up the connection but since it is not event detecting the network, I'm guessing this might be a driver issue?

Anyway, my network card is 3Com 3c905c TX/TXM and the current driver is 3c59x (I'm not exactly what all this means, I'm not a techie).

Also, I'm using a Trendnet TEW 624 UB USB network adapter which works well on my Lubuntu machine.

What do I need to do to connect to the network?

Thank you so very much!
Posts: 325
male
Joined: 04 Nov 2011
#2
Voila, was the same.

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male@antiX1:~$ inxi -n
Network:   Card-1 3Com 3cCFE575CT CardBus [Cyclone] driver 3c59x port 3000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
           IF: eth1 state: unknown speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <Filter>
           Card-2 Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection driver ipw2200 v: 1.2.2kmprq bus-ID: 02:02.0
           IF: eth2 state: down speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <Filter>
Start the antiX Control Centre
select fluxbox or icewm settings (which you are applying)
select startup
remove the # before wicd-client &
save and close
restart the computer

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Posts: 5
des1517
Joined: 06 Jul 2012
#3
Thanks,

Mine looks like this:

#sleep 2 && wicd-client &

Do I simply remove the"#" or should I remove the"sleep 2 &&" as well?

I'm really new at this.

Thanks again!
anticapitalista
Posts: 5,955
Site Admin
Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#4
Keep the sleep so it reads.

sleep 2 && wicd-client &
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des1517
Joined: 06 Jul 2012
#5
Thanks for pointing this newbie in the right direction ... I'll try that now.

All the best ...
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des1517
Joined: 06 Jul 2012
#6
Ok ... I made the edit, saved, and rebooted. It is still telling me"no connection found."

What should I do next?

Thanks for all your help!
anticapitalista
Posts: 5,955
Site Admin
Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#7
In a terminal type

inxi -n

This will tell us exactly what card you have.

Before that, open wicd or ceni in antiXcontrolcentre -> Network->

and set it up there.
You might nedd to make some changes to the default settings.
Posts: 5
des1517
Joined: 06 Jul 2012
#8
Thanks,

When I click on Connect wirelessly (wicd) no terminal box shows up. Instead, a little networking icon shows up at the bottom right system tray that says I'm not connected.

When I open the network interfaces (ceni) I get a ROXTerm box with three other boxes inside it. One says"hardware interfaces" one,"interface actions" and the other"logical interfaces"

Here's what's inside each one:

Hardware interfaces: eth0 ethernet 00:08:74:96:5a:f6 3c59x 3Com 3c905c-TX/TX-M [tornado]

There is nothing else in this box.

Interface Actions:

Configure new logical interface ...
Configure all wpa-roam mappings ...

Logical interfaces:
wlan0

[exit]

That's all I have.
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#9
Left click on wicd icon in taskbar.

Hit the preferences button.

Type in wlan0 into wireless interface that is blank.

Close preferences.

Hit the refresh button.