topic title: WIFI configuration
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JXR
Joined: 16 Apr 2012
#1
I’ve just loaded AntiX; now I’m trying to configure wireless…
(I thought the OS would automatically detect wireless, but apparently it doesn’t.)
First I tried Control Center/Connect Wirelessly (wicd): no go.
Then I rebooted into Windows to confirm that the computer could/and did detect wireless (through the Belkin card). It does.
Then I looked up wireless on this forum and found out that by going to
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I could try both Wicd and Ceni, two approaches to wireless.

Wicd: No wireless networks found. Connection Info: Disconnected (never had the Wicd Network manager pop up…(maybe once last night…)) I do seem to remember a field containing “eth0” that, if I could get the window back I would fill in with “eth1”

Q1) How do I get the Wicd Network manager window back?

Ceni: Returns a terminal window:
Eth0 Ethernet…
Eth1 wireless…Belkin…11Mbps-Wireless-Notebook (looked promising…)

Help page instructs:
antiX Control Center--> Network--> Network Interfaces--> click on your hardware interface (ex. eth0 wireless 00:00:00:00:00:00 ipw220 INTEL PRO 2915ABG) --> reconfigure eth0 (or whatever yours is ath0,wlan0,etc)--> Scan--> Choose a wireless network--> enter pw for WPA or WEP, or choose none if no encryption --> Accept--> Accept--> enter-->

which I took to mean:
antiX Control Center--> Network--> Network Interfaces--> click on your hardware interface (Eth1 wireless…Belkin…11Mbps-Wireless-Notebook ) -->
reconfigure eth1 (by clicking onConfigure new logical interface… Name for new logical interface “BelkinWireless” OK)-->
Reconfigure BelkinWireless--> Network settings for BelkinWireless… I have no idea how to set them so I just clicked [Accept]

Executing a Terminal [root] ifconfig –a returns info on eth0 and eth1 but the information is the same for both of them and doesn’t mention Belkin…

Q2) How do I continue with Ceni?

Q3) What’s the difference between Wicd and Ceni?
rokytnji
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#2
(I thought the OS would automatically detect wireless, but apparently it doesn’t.)
First I tried Control Center/Connect Wirelessly (wicd): no go.
I guess you missed the part in my eeepc 900 install how to on how to find wireless interface and connect up with WICD. I am pretty sure I covered it. But. I have wrote so many how tos.
Maybe I am thinking of another install how to. I will check it after this post.

Edit: Yeah,
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inxi -F
readout in next post so we can see what hardware you are running also.

I am comfortable using WICD. Ceni runs at 100% CPU and slows down my Desktop while loading on my 2 EEEPCs so I don't use it. Some one else will have to walk you through Ceni.
I run wpa2 encrypted wireless at my place and Wicd does the job for me whether home or traveling. I connect to encrypted wireless networks at Motels, Hotels, Airports, and Hospitals ok also when they supply me the password.

The difference to me between ceni and Wicd is that ceni can be ran outside of X like on a inti3 boot to connect wireless outside of a running Desktop session. A few forum members here use Ceni instead of Wicd. So be patient for them to respond.
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#3
After looking over my how to. I see how you might be confused using Wicd. You type in eth1 which ifconfig -a showed into wireless interface box where I show wlan0. Then hit the refresh button when done and your router should show up.

to get wicd back. Type into terminal

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wicd-gtk
wicd should open then. If you get command not found. Use sux in terminal to become root user in terminal and then try wicd-gtk.
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male
Joined: 04 Nov 2011
#4
please post

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$ lspci -nn -k | grep -i net
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JXR
Joined: 16 Apr 2012
#5
Still not able to WiFi...and yes, I did overlook your"Part 2: Enabling Wifi" My mistake

And from your description, I think Wicd would be the option I would prefer...

Rereading your post I realized I couldn't get far because I don't know how to view the kernel log:
1) How do I view the kernel log? (when I boot antiX I don't see anything run by that mentions"...pinocchio...")

Anyway, I got into the Wicd Preferences, replaced Wired interface: eth0 with eth1 (Checked 'Always show wired interface' and 'Always switch to a wired connection when available'...); tried to connect and (after a lot of chugging away) got"Connection Failed: Unable to Get IP Address."
Looked at Preferences again and thought:"Well maybe I should put eth1 into the Wireless interface field" tried again to Connect and got the message"No wireless networks found"

Now there are a bunch of"Wired Network Properties" fields available in the Properties window, but I don't see how they would relate to wireless (and don't know how to fill them out anyway)
anticapitalista
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#6
Post the output of, in a terminal, inxi -n (or inxi -F) to give us more information.
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JXR
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#7

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Inxi-n
Network: Card 3Com 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] driver 3c59x port 3000 bus-ID: 02:01.0 IF: eth0 state: down speed: 10 Mbps duplex: half mac: 00:08:74:e2:88:62
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JXR
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inxi -f
CPU: Single core Mobile Intel Pentium 4 - M (-UP-) cache 512 KB clocked at 1200.00 MH
CPU flags fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe up pebs bts cid
anticapitalista
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#9
capital F JXR __{{emoticon}}__
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JXR
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#10

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Inxi-F
System: Host antiX1 Kernel 2.6.36-1-mepis-smp i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-M11-689 Jayaben Desai 01 May 2011
CPU: Single core Mobile Intel Pentium 4 – M (-UP-) cache 512 KB  flags (sse sse2) bmips 2392.57 clocked at 1200.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: nVidia NV11 [GeForce2 Go] bus-ID: 01:00.0 Xorg 1.9.5 Res: 125x40  Gfx N/A for root
Audio:  Card Intel 82801CA/CAM AC’ 97 Audio Controller driver Intel ICH ports 1c00 1880 bus-ID 00:1f.5
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.23
Network: Card 3Com 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] driver 3c59x  port 3000 bus-ID: 02:01.0
Disks HDD Total Size 30.00GB (7.2% used) 1:/dev/sda HITACHI_DK23EA 30.0GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 9.5G used: 2.1G (23%) fs: ext3 ID: swap-1 size: 0.55GB used: 0,00GB (0%) fs: swap
Info: Processes 82 Uptime 2:03 Memory 78.2/246.9 MB RunLevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.4.95
Jeez...talk about a typing trial __{{emoticon}}__
anticapitalista
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#11
You'll need to do some more typing __{{emoticon}}__

In a root terminal, type

modprobe 3c59x

then

ceni to set up networking.

The posts here might help.


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JXR
Joined: 16 Apr 2012
#12
rmod 3c59x
FATAL: Module 3c95x not found.

romd 3c59x options=3
EFFOR: Module 3c59x does not exist in /proc/modules
ERROR: Module options=3 does not exist in /proc/modules

A good case seems to have been made for sticking with wicd (less CPU usage; less slowdown).
Why the switch to ceni?

(Obviously you know what you're doing. With each step I take [you instruct me to take] I think I know more, but I find myself asking myself more questions than getting answers--and it's embarrassing just following directions and not being able to contribute more. __{{emoticon}}__ )
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
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nxi-F
System: Host antiX1 Kernel 2.6.36-1-mepis-smp i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-M11-689 Jayaben Desai 01 May 2011
CPU: Single core Mobile Intel Pentium 4 – M (-UP-) cache 512 KB flags (sse sse2) bmips 2392.57 clocked at 1200.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: nVidia NV11 [GeForce2 Go] bus-ID: 01:00.0 Xorg 1.9.5 Res: 125x40 Gfx N/A for root
Audio: Card Intel 82801CA/CAM AC’ 97 Audio Controller driver Intel ICH ports 1c00 1880 bus-ID 00:1f.5
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.23
Network: Card 3Com 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] driver 3c59x port 3000 bus-ID: 02:01.0
Disks HDD Total Size 30.00GB (7.2% used) 1:/dev/sda HITACHI_DK23EA 30.0GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 9.5G used: 2.1G (23%) fs: ext3 ID: swap-1 size: 0.55GB used: 0,00GB (0%) fs: swap
Info: Processes 82 Uptime 2:03 Memory 78.2/246.9 MB RunLevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.4.95
Errrr. Where the heck is your wifi card? Are you running a wireless usb like me?

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$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:8189 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8187B Wireless 802.11g 54Mbps Network Adapter
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 058f:9360 Alcor Micro Corp. 8-in-1 Media Card Reader
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 062a:0000 Creative Labs Optical mouse

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$ dmesg | grep rtl8187 
rtl8187: Customer ID is 0x00
Registered led device: rtl8187-phy0::radio
Registered led device: rtl8187-phy0::tx
Registered led device: rtl8187-phy0::rx
rtl8187: wireless switch is on
usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8187
usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8187
If you see that line everything should be OK
Just posting for example using the


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Rereading your post I realized I couldn't get far because I don't know how to view the kernel log:
1) How do I view the kernel log? (when I boot antiX I don't see anything run by that mentions"...pinocchio...")
logs will be in /var folder. I am guessing you wanna look at /var/log/boot. Mine for a example.

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Mon Mar 26 03:58:24 2012: Setting parameters of disc: (none).
Mon Mar 26 03:58:24 2012: Setting preliminary keymap...done.
Mon Mar 26 03:58:24 2012: Activating swap...done.
Mon Mar 26 03:58:24 2012: Checking root file system...fsck from util-linux 2.19.1
Mon Mar 26 03:58:24 2012: /dev/sda1: clean, 162972/7200768 files, 3289702/28774423 blocks
Mon Mar 26 03:58:24 2012: done.
Mon Mar 26 03:58:24 2012: Loading kernel modules...done.
Mon Mar 26 03:58:24 2012: Activating lvm and md swap...done.
Mon Mar 26 03:58:24 2012: Checking file systems...fsck from util-linux 2.19.1
Mon Mar 26 03:58:24 2012: done.
Mon Mar 26 03:58:24 2012: Mounting local filesystems...done.
Mon Mar 26 03:58:24 2012: Activating swapfile swap...done.
Mon Mar 26 03:58:24 2012: Cleaning up temporary files....
Mon Mar 26 03:58:24 2012: Cleaning up ifupdown....
Mon Mar 26 03:58:25 2012: Setting kernel variables ...error:"net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6" is an unknown key
Mon Mar 26 03:58:25 2012: error:"net.ipv6.bindv6only" is an unknown key
Mon Mar 26 03:58:25 2012: ^[[31mfailed.^[[39;49m
Mon Mar 26 03:58:25 2012: Setting up resolvconf...done.
Mon Mar 26 03:58:25 2012: Setting up networking....
Mon Mar 26 03:58:25 2012: Configuring network interfaces...done.
Mon Mar 26 03:58:25 2012: Cleaning up temporary files....
Mon Mar 26 03:58:25 2012: Running 0dns-down to make sure resolv.conf is ok...done.
Mon Mar 26 03:58:25 2012: Setting up ALSA...done.
Mon Mar 26 03:58:26 2012: Setting console screen modes.
Mon Mar 26 03:58:26 2012: ^[[9;30]^[[14;30]Skipping font and keymap setup (handled by console-setup).
Mon Mar 26 03:58:26 2012: Setting up console font and keymap...done.
Mon Mar 26 03:58:27 2012: Setting sensors limits.
Mon Mar 26 03:58:27 2012: INIT: Entering runlevel: 5
Mon Mar 26 03:58:27 2012: Using makefile-style concurrent boot in runlevel 5.
Mon Mar 26 03:58:30 2012: Updating the system logo...done.
Mon Mar 26 03:58:30 2012: Starting enhanced syslogd: rsyslogd.
Mon Mar 26 03:58:30 2012: Starting X display manager: slim.
Mon Mar 26 03:58:30 2012: Starting periodic command scheduler: cron.
Mon Mar 26 03:58:31 2012: Starting system message bus: dbus.
Mon Mar 26 03:58:32 2012: Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemon.
Mon Mar 26 03:58:32 2012: Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd.
Mon Mar 26 03:58:34 2012: Starting mouse interface server: gpm.
Mon Mar 26 03:58:34 2012: Loading cpufreq kernel modules...WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/fbdev-blacklist.conf line 6: ignoring bad line starting with 'fb'
Mon Mar 26 03:58:34 2012: WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/fbdev-blacklist.conf line 6: ignoring bad line starting with 'fb'
Mon Mar 26 03:58:35 2012: WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/fbdev-blacklist.conf line 6: ignoring bad line starting with 'fb'
Mon Mar 26 03:58:35 2012: WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/fbdev-blacklist.conf line 6: ignoring bad line starting with 'fb'
Mon Mar 26 03:58:35 2012: WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/fbdev-blacklist.conf line 6: ignoring bad line starting with 'fb'
Mon Mar 26 03:58:36 2012: done (none).
Mon Mar 26 03:58:36 2012: CPUFreq Utilities: Setting ondemand CPUFreq governor...disabled, governor not available...done.
Mon Mar 26 03:58:36 2012: PulseAudio configured for per-user sessions ... ^[[33m(warning).^[[39;49m
Mon Mar 26 03:58:36 2012: saned disabled; edit /etc/default/saned
Mon Mar 26 03:58:36 2012: Starting Network connection manager: wicd.
I know how to fix the line 6 warning message. But I don't care about it because it does not affect anything.

This was posted from my AntiX install on my Motorcycle Desktop PC in the shop to avoid confusion. Not my EEEPC.
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JXR
Joined: 16 Apr 2012
#14
It's a Belkin 802.11b 2.4 GHz DSSSPCMCIA wireless Notebook Network Card F5D6020 ver.2 ...card
(IEEE 802.11b/11Mbps)

- goes into the side of the computer -
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#15
If pcmcia. You need to run the inxi -F command while it is plugged in for inxi to pick it up. I did not see it in your previous inxi readout is why I asked. Belkin used different chips in their pcmcia from Broadcom to Atheros. The above post does not tell me what chip that card uses.

You can also plug in the card and go to


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Follow the instructions. Then just get the info it spits out on the wifi and land line card also instead of typing out everything.