topic title: Thinkpad 600X trouble with wifi
Posts: 4
chris@elfpen
Joined: 01 May 2012
#1
I have antiX running on this Thinkpad 600x.

I plug in a pcmcia Belkin wifi card and get networking ok.
But it seems to be kind of shaky. Ping to a server is
herky-jerky and drops a lot of packets.

I have a usb-10Base100 device. If I plug that one
in I see the new eth0 network device listed. And
then the wifi works much better.

Notice, I don't have a network cable connected to the
usb network device. So all of the network traffic is
on the wifi. But the wifi works much better if
the usb thing is attached.

I'm going to try to compare the output of 'lsmod' in
the two conditions, with and without the usb device attached.

Otherwise I'm a bit mystified.
Posts: 81
FreeOS-LuvR
Joined: 22 Mar 2012
#2
Greetings,

Sounds like it maybe hardware issue.

You could try doing:

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ifconfig -a
Also

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iwconfig
I wish you all the best with your issue.
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#3
Post a

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inxi -F
readout with the belkin card plugged in (I run a Belkin F5D7010 ver. 6) and for the usb 10/100 device

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lsusb
Some other commands you can post are

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su -c"hwinfo --netcard"
and

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su -c"hwinfo --wlan"
with everything plugged in.

Howdy and Welcome to AntiX.