Hello:
Is it possible to add wireless to a core-install? Can it be as simple as just installing ceni or will I have to add modules to the kernel?

Perhaps it will be easier to just use base instead?

thanks

Pedro

pedro apart from ceni you need the firmware for your wireless card installed. if it's not included in the kernel, liquorix has a lot of drivers included in to it, you need to install the one that is needed for your wireless card.

Thanks, ice. I'll look into liquorix then.

just post your inxi -F info and maybe we will manage to find out what firmware is needed. i use the liquorix kernel or firmware-iwlwifi when i'm using the mepis kernel.

arch wiki is a good place to look on how to find out what firmware to install.
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edit: you also need wireless-tools and wpa_supplicant maybe someone like anti knows what is needed best for wireless.

Thanks for your suggestions Ice-M. I got wireless to work in a core install (pure cli; no X) using the following procedure:

1) apt-get install wireless-tools
2) apt get install firmware-b43-installer
3) edit /etc/modprobe.d/b43.conf to:

install b43 true
install b44 true
#install ssb true

4) modprobe -r b43
5) modprobe -i b43
6) at this point i was very happy since ifconfig showed up both the ethernet and the wireless card.
7) getting wireless to work with my router (WPA) was a struggle. I wasted a LOT of time, installed wpa_supplicant, created a wpa.conf file with my network passphrase, all to no avail.
8 ) used smxi to install Ceni and now wireless works.

Only problem is that it does not persist a reboot, so I have to do the modprobe -r/-i b43 and rerun Ceni. It's kind of a bother (maybe I can write a script), Perhaps someome will have another suggestion for this.

Still,I'm very happy with this box running antix-core, no X and only user 14 megs as shown by htop.

Also, I will apologize in advance but I will crosspost this my other thread on AntiX-less adventures, so that I can keep all the information in one place.

Pedro

Pedro,

Can you modify your /etc/modprobe.d/b43.conf to:
then run in terminal
then restart ceni, set up your wireless and then reboot and see if it sticks

cheers,
ohh

Hi ohh:

Thanks for your suggestions. They were partly successful, in that I don't have to redo the modbprobe part. However, the Ceni settings do not survive a reboot. Still, it's better than it was before.

Pedro

Hmm, well, that's curious, do you have the files:

/etc/default/ifplugd
and
/etc/default/ifupdown

cheers,
ohh

Hi ohh:

Here are the contents of /etc/default (remember this is a core install; not base).

alsa
antiX
bootlogd
console-setup
cron
dbus
devpts
exim4
halt
ifupdown
keyboard
locale
ntpdate
rcS
tmpfs
useradd

thanks

Pedro

Ok,

Your missing the ifplugd,
can you check the
/etc/init.d/

directory and see if it contains:

ifplugd

Yes, I do realize that it is base install, just trying to track down whats missing, I would think that base should contain the necessary network functions, but I may be wrong __{{emoticon}}__

Edit: Pedro, I did some checking, ifplugd was not in core, so do an
apt-get update
apt-get install ifplugd
and then reboot and see if your network sticks.


cheers,
ohh

Hello:
I solved my problem with CENI not persisting through a reboot.

Chuck it to a learning curve or just plain stupidity,but here was the problem:

In my inital setup while I trying to get the card recognized and I was playing with b43.conf, I set CENI to manual. I changed that to auto and of course it works.
Embarrasing, I know., Maybe someone else can learn from my mistake.

Pedro