I've been trying to get my wireless up, and, well, i've been having quite some time. For some reason WICD wont open up, and, to top if off ceni wont aquire an ip address, and that too doesn't work. I've updated everything, but even before the update, wicd did not work.

Please help. Theres a cookie in it for you __{{emoticon}}__

Running"wicd-client" in the terminal may give some clues as to what's going on.

Can you confirm your wireless card is recognized?

I was playing around with the start up services, and it seems i've disabled something that shouldn't have been disabled.

gives me tty job did not start....now i have to worry about this -___-

I'm pretty sure, however, it did detect my wireless card

post output of
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Not sure if you read my previous post, but the computer is no longer booting. /bin/sh: cant access tty; job control turned off

My bad. I am dead tired and half asleep. Been doing my own all day custom Antix install on my Asus EEEPC 701SD. So kinda groggy myself.

Is this a fresh install you have. If so. It might be to your self interest. To just do a reinstall first.
Get back into a Desktop. Then open a terminal and post above commands so members can see what is going on with your hardware and wireless. You could also boot up cd as live mode and post above commands while running as a live cd if you want to wait for other members tomorrow to see if they can suggest how to fix your broken boot. Been a very busy friday for me. So I am poor help at this late in the day. Hope you have good luck sorting this out. The guys here are pretty helpful.

Happy Trails and goodnight. Rok

rokytnji wrote:My bad. I am dead tired and half asleep. Been doing my own all day custom Antix install on my Asus EEEPC 701SD. So kinda groggy myself.

Is this a fresh install you have. If so. It might be to your self interest. To just do a reinstall first.
Get back into a Desktop. Then open a terminal and post above commands so members can see what is going on with your hardware and wireless. You could also boot up cd as live mode and post above commands while running as a live cd if you want to wait for other members tomorrow to see if they can suggest how to fix your broken boot. Been a very busy friday for me. So I am poor help at this late in the day. Hope you have good luck sorting this out. The guys here are pretty helpful.

Happy Trails and goodnight. Rok

Thank you very, very much. I've had my fair share of sleeplessness, 3 hours for a 5 months.


"inxi -f" assuming you only need the wireless, yields"atheros ar5001 wireless network adapter driver ath5k

ifconfig ifconfig yields eth0 and lo. No wlan.

If you didn't clean you APT cache (/var/cache/apt/archives), back it up then you can reinstall, put the files back there and you can upgrade again without having to download the packages all over again.

Just for info. You are using the ath5k driver for your atheros chip on wireless card.

That works out of the box on my laptops with that setup. I just have tp put wlan0 in Wicd Wireless Interface in preferences and hit refresh and my wireless network shows up and I connect.

Not sure why you are having problems. I would start from scratch with a re-install. Which I am known for doing on a regular basis.( I break AntiX with my testing a lot):D

rokytnji wrote:Just for info. You are using the ath5k driver for your atheros chip on wireless card.

That works out of the box on my laptops with that setup. I just have tp put wlan0 in Wicd Wireless Interface in preferences and hit refresh and my wireless network shows up and I connect.

Not sure why you are having problems. I would start from scratch with a re-install. Which I am known for doing on a regular basis.( I break AntiX with my testing a lot):D

I've had it for about...oh, a day, and i've reinstalled it 3 times. __{{emoticon}}__

I did try puttin in the wlan0 the fist time around, but it didn't work. I just found out, for some odd reason, the atheros packages weren't installed...so, i just reinstalled them, and now they work.


Thanks a bunch!

Thanks for posting what you did to fix this. It will help other folks out in the future. I am guilty of
being a raving lunatic when it comes to posting on this forum. I am amazed sometimes on how Anti and the guys put up with me. Must be my up front attitude I guess. You get what you see/read when I post.

Glad you got it sorted. AntiX will teach you a lot when it comes to running a Linux Distro. At least it did for me.

Now it seems i have another problem. When I rebooted the laptop, i got the following errors

usb 2.6 error 110
usb 7-2 error 110

I have a feeling it has something to do with the usb. At one point, this error did go away, but, putting up with it is impossible. lags my boot time by about 3 minutes or so.

I have disabled all forms of usb stuff via the bios, but still no cigar.


Any ideas on this one?




Side note:

Being a lunatic is only benificial well...when you benifit. I'm sure admins/mods are cool with it, because in the end, people recieve help, and they cannot possibly take that way (well, they can, but im sure they dont want to xD)

Have you got around to doing a apt-get update yet?

Also. Not familiar with the usb error on boot. Some of the other guys may chime in on that. I comment out halevt in icewm and fluxbox startup files (look in my conky thread) to improve boot times.

I also do apt-get dist-upgrade after apt-get update to get the latest sofftware from debian also. I just keep my repositories stock (no change to /etc/apt/sources.list) when I do a apt-get dist-upgrade.

Happy Trails, Rok

Weird. The problem disappeared, all on its own, but another arises -_-

Every update i do, i get the same error (even though what needs to be installed, is installed)


the package wicd-gtk is not configured yet (that, and all the rest of the wicd packages)

There were errors processing these packages.

I've also noticed, that 0mb of my swap is being used, even though i designated about 3 gigs. blahr linux. blahr...

Just for clarification. You running the 8.5 Update Iso?