Here, I'll post all output.

root@antiX1:/home/paco# ifup eth1
Ignoring unknown interface eth1=eth1.

root@antiX1:/home/paco# dhclient eth1
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3
Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/"
linktext was:"https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/"
====================================


Listening on LPF/eth1/00:02:2d:24:f7:95
Sending on LPF/eth1/00:02:2d:24:f7:95
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 2
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457 GHz Access Point: None
Bit Rate:2 Mb/s Sensitivity:1/0
Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=0/70 Signal level=-122 dBm Noise level=-122 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

ok,

run in terminal

lsusb

and post output

root@antiX1:/home/paco# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:c03d Logitech, Inc. M-BT96a Pilot Optical Mouse
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Note: My Netgear USB Wireless Adapter is not plugged in. Should I plug it in and run it again?

shutdown your computer
plug in the wireless adapter
and restart the computer,
then run
lsusb

cheers,
oldhoghead

Here goes

root@antiX1:/home/paco# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1385:5f01 Netgear, Inc WPN111 (no firmware)
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:c03d Logitech, Inc. M-BT96a Pilot Optical Mouse
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

great,

that is what we need, I have to go for now but will follow up on this tonite

cheers,
oldhoghead

Great. I gotta go for a while too. I hope to talk to you again soon. Thanks very much for all your help.

Well, now that I'm back and after taking a closer look, it is not great, that particular usb dongle is very problematic in Linux, and you will have to jump through a bunch of hoops to get it to work, and even then it really only works well unencrypted, if you use wpa or wpa2 you would be better off to purchase a usb dongle that is known to work ootb in linux.

If you want to pursue getting this to work, then let me know and we will give it a whirl.

cheers,
oldhoghead

I reinstalled Debian with gnome, and the internal wireless device works perfectly. So I'm stumped as to why antiX is not detecting it. My problem with Debian is that it will only give me 800x00 resolution, and I want it to be 1024x768. Could you help me with that? I'd kinda rather stick with AntiX, but I gotta go with what works.

I can't seem to paste anything into this forum for some reason. I musta done it a hundred times yesterday. I can't tab or put extra spaces either...weird. So I can't paste my xorg.conf file, but I'll just type out what seems relevant to me.

Section"Device"
Identifier"Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section"Monitor"
Identifier"Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section"Screen"
Identifier"Default Screen"
Monitor"Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Actually, I had a crazy idea. While I wait for a reply, I'm going to reinstall AntiX, which gives me the right resolution, copy xorg.conf from there, then reinstall Debian, and paste Antix's xorg.conf there. I'll let you know how it works.

pacopag,

I can't seem to paste anything into this forum for some reason. I musta done it a hundred times yesterday. I can't tab or put extra spaces either...weird. So I can't paste my xorg.conf file, but I'll just type out what seems relevant to me.

You probably just replied in the box below the last post, in order to do anything else you need to click on the reply box that will open an expanded reply to post with all the bells and whistle's.

I am curious as to what driver debian is using for your dongle, in debian gnome would you run

lsusb

and copy and paste that here so I can see the firmware it uses?

cheers,
oldhoghead

Hi again. I did use the box below last post last time. Let's see if paste works now. Here's the output of lsusb from debian

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0781:5406 SanDisk Corp. Cruzer Micro U3
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:c03d Logitech, Inc. M-BT96a Pilot Optical Mouse
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Yep. Paste works now. Note that I'm not using the USB wireless adapter. It's the internal card that is working. Here is output of lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub (rev 11)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 11)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BAM IDE U100 Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/XP (rev 63)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet Controller (rev 03)
02:0c.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
02:0d.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC100 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 31)
02:0d.1 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC100 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 31)

Don't know if that tells you anything. Let me know if you want me to do anything else.

By the way, the xorg.conf trick worked. I have my desired screen resolution in debian, and my wireless works. My dream has finally come true. Don't get me wrong, I have bigger dreams than that. But this is something that's been bugging me for some time now.

oldhoghead:
Thanks a ton for all your help. I wish I could buy you a beer. I hope it's ok for me to post more questions in the future, even though I'm not really an antix user anymore. It's still one of my very favorite distros.

Cheers,

Well, I still don't see a wireless device there,
could you post output as root of:


iwconfig

cheers,
oldhoghead

I hope it's ok for me to post more questions in the future, even though I'm not really an antix user anymore.

It's Antis forum. But we are a pretty easy going bunch of folks here.
At least I am.