Hi everyone,

I have been using Antix 8.2 for a while, which works great on my Toshiba Laptop. The laptop's wifi-adapter is an ipw2200.

While Antix 8.2 works fine, in Antix 8.5 I cannot connect to my network. Wicd does not detect anything, in rutilt I can see the network, but cannot connect.
Also, I cannot click anything by tipping on the touchpad but have to use the left key.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Antix 8.2 still works great for me but I am curious about the new version.

Congrats to Anti!
Patric

pbachert,

Welcome to antiX, I have the same wireless adapter in my Dell laptop and it works fine in 8.5, probably just need to set it up.
You can follow this to setup your nic:


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cheers,
oldhoghead

For touchpad tapping, try this:

Run the following two commands to immediately make it work:

#modprobe -r psmouse
#modprobe psmouse proto=imps

and if that works, to make this change permanent, create a file such as touchpad.conf under /etc/modprobe.d/, and put the following line in it:

options psmouse proto=imps

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Anti, oldhoghead,

Thanks for your suggestions, which worked out fine.

Just one more question. I need to run Windows on my computer for work-related stuff. I use Antix as a live-cd, since I am a little paranoid about getting windows-viruses when using Antix as a dual boot system. Is there any way to save the changes (touchpad/network profile) to the (re-writable) cd, in order to not having to change all this every time? I guess this would amount to something like remastering the distro, which is probably too difficult for me, even with the script provided at the mepis site.

Thanks again
Patric

Regarding your question you can install antiX to a flashdrive with persistency options from within the live-cd. Control Center > Discs > antix2usb (you need to have antiX iso in the hd for it to copy to the flashdrive). A 1GB flashdrive will be enough.
Regarding dual-boot and viruses, I believe there's no way for that to happen unless you download an infected file and manually execute it in Windows but then it doesn't matter if you're running antiX live or installed.
You can install an anti-virus application in antiX to scan any file you may suspect about: If you're fine with only the command line app, then: (ClamTK is a GUI for ClamAV)

had the same problem with the touchpad as seen above, looked into it further today and found that using the command ( synclient tapbutton1=1 ) in the terminal as user, had enabled the touch-click feature.

To make this work upon boot I had opened ( /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi ). then found the line ( deviceinfo version="0.2" ) and added the line ( <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">1</merge> ) just below enabling it on boot. This may also work for you, if not there are more options that I had found here (
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Hi, i followed the instruction to get the touchpad tap working.

#modprobe -r psmouse
#modprobe psmouse proto=imps

touchpad.conf:
options psmouse proto=imps

Fine, now the tapping works, but the scrolling with the left side of the touchpad is now not working anymore. Before the changes it worked.
I run antix 8.5 on an asus eeepc 1005ha. Thanks for any advice.

You have scrolling on the left side?

Oh, sorry for that. I meant the right side. __{{emoticon}}__