No Option for Suspend

bcapro · posted: 2010-11-30 21:10

Hi All!

Still loving antiX. Here's what feels like an obvious problem- I can't suspend. I know I didn't set up the swap file during install (didn't know what it meant...now I do). How do I run that command? I found something like wrsusp, but it didn't work, even when run in root. Also, to hit you guys with yet another question... how good is antiX at finding wireless signals out of the box? I've already put antiX on my desktop, but now I want to put it on my laptop as well. (IBM T42).

Thanks! Glad to be part of such a cool community.

Dave · posted: 2010-11-30 21:49

With 8.5 have not found many wireless problems as long as you stay away from broadcom chips. I am not saying that they will not work or not work well, it is just not an"out of the box" configuration in my opinion. My familly has 4 laptops on wireless, one desktop wirless, and I have put antiX on another desktop and laptop both running wireless and they all work fine,"out of the box".

I think the best test for out of the box would be to try to run a live cd / live usb and see if it works. PS. if you would like to use WICD you would need to change the preferences, so I would suggest to use ceni for seeing if it would work.

bcapro · posted: 2010-11-30 22:28

Thanks! I never even thought of a liveCD. That makes perfect sense- I'll be sure to try it out.

rokytnji · posted: 2010-11-30 22:29

Post the readout of

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inxi -F

after booting live session on IBM Laptop. We can see what wireless card is used then.

As far as suspend goes. It works for me but I run a swap partition when I installed AntiX on my IBM T23. My IBM T23 readout below.

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$ inxi -F
System:    Host biker Kernel 2.6.34-stevo i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-M8.5 Marek Edelman 16 February 2010
CPU:       Single core Mobile Intel Pentium III - M (-UP-) cache 512 KB flags (sse) bmips 1598.58 clocked at 798.00 MHz 
Graphics:  Card S3 SuperSavage IX/C SDR X.Org 1.7.7 Res: 1024x768@71.0hz 
           GLX Renderer Software Rasterizer GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio:     Card Intel 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller driver Intel ICH at ports 1c00 18c0 BusID: 00:1f.5
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.22.1
Network:   Card-1 Intel 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller driver e100 v: 3.5.24-k2-NAPI at port 6400 BusID: 02:08.0
           Card-2 RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI driver rt61pci v: 2.3.0 BusID: 07:00.0
Disks:     HDD Total Size: 80.0GB (12.4% used) 1: /dev/hda ST980815A 80.0GB 
Partition: ID:/ size: 4.8G used: 2.6G (57%) fs: ext3 ID:/home size: 11G used: 1.7G (17%) fs: ext3 
           ID:swap-1 size: 1.04GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
Info:      Processes 94 Uptime 1:32 Memory 302.9/1008.7MB Runlevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.4.21