Hi. I can't seem to find any wireless networks. Wireless was working earlier with Debian (but screen res problem got me back to antix), so I'm pretty sure there's nothing wrong with the device. Here is the 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)

Any help? Thanks.

Pacopag:
Which Antix version are you using?

I've read that some people had to change dhcpd for dhclient or the other way round in Wicd's preferences.

pacopag. I don't see a wireless device in your lspci readout.

Unless it's this.

CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)

I am used to seeing a/b/g in the readout is why I don't recognize it if that is the card.

Is this a USB wifi adapter or PCMCIA wireless adpater or a internal PCI adapter. If a external usb Wifi adapter. Plug it in and Post output of
and
If internal pci wireless or pcmcia wireless. inxi -F should show it.

You are using Gnome right? So you have Network manager also. Which means WICD is uninstalled. What does enable wireless also show in Network manager?

Did you go for the Base Iso or Core Iso or the Full Iso ,also 486 or 686 as pivera mentioned?

Hi. Thank you all for your replies. Sorry I've been offline for a while. This is an internal device. I installed the 686 version"as is" and I'm using icewm. Here is the output of inxi -F

System: Host antiX1 Kernel 2.6.32-1-mepis-smp i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-M8.5 Marek Edelman 11 April 2010
CPU: Single core Pentium III (Coppermine) (UP) cache 256 KB flags (sse) bmips 1396.1 clocked at 700.00 MHz
Graphics: Card Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/XP X.Org 1.6.5 Res: 1024x768@70.0hz
GLX Renderer Software Rasterizer GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1-DEVEL Direct Rendering Yes
Audio: Card Intel 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio Controller driver Intel ICH at ports ce00 cdc0 BusID: 00:1f.5
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.21
Network: Card Intel 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet Controller driver e100 v: 3.5.24-k2-NAPI at port df40 BusID: 02:08.0
Disks: HDD Total Size: 30.0GB (5.5% used) 1: /dev/hda IC25N030ATDA04-0 30.0GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 26G used: 1.6G (7%) fs: ext3 ID:swap-1 size: 2.18GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Info: Processes 81 Uptime 16 min Memory 85.1/247.2MB Runlevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.4.9

In the Network: section, I don't see anything about wireless, so maybe the device is not being detected. I'm quite sure that Debian detected it, although I never used it with Debian.

The only thing I see in inxi -F

Network: Card Intel 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet Controller driver e100 v: 3.5.24-k2-NAPI at port df40 BusID: 02:08.0

which I am guessing is your hard line card. Are you using it to connect this Lappy for now via hardline? Driver is loaded.

I googled last night the

CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)

and saw it has to do something with VGA. Not Wireless. So that was a dead end.

It looks like nothing is being seen as far as wireless card to me. Is this maybe (shoot, brain fart. I can't remember what they call it. The infra red wireless on old laptops. Kinda like Bluetooth.)

You might think of forking out a couple bucks for a pcmcia card. Just a suggestion. Take it or leave it. I have excellant results using D-Link WNA 1330 PCMCIA Wireless G Cardbus with Atheros Chipset and also Belkin F5D7010 ver.6 PCMCIA Wireless G Cardbus raylink chipset. I think Belkin F5D7010 ver.4 uses the Atheros Chipset so it should work out of the box also.

Good news is it looks like sound is loaded and working.

I'm quite sure that Debian detected it, although I never used it with Debian.

AntiX is basically Debian Squeeze with a Mepis Kernel. I had a issue with Mepis Kernel on one of my Netbooks. But even though the driver was stripped from the kernel. inxi -F still saw my wifi card and wireless chip.
So inxi -F is actually distro independent. Because I install and run it in Ubuntu and Puppy Linux also to show the broad spectrum difference in how inxi -F will run in most anything. Are you actually sure you have a wireless card because you say you never tried using it in Debian.



Not trying to disagree or question your smarts. Just trying to cover all bases. I fix motorcycles for a living so used to asking/telling people that maybe they are mistaken sometimes. So don't take me wrong.

Edit: P.S.> you can look through my threads and posts to see what I mean.

Happy Trails, Rok

could you post the output from a root terminal
using sux not su or sudo

lshw -class network

cheers,
oldhoghead

I'm not so sure I even have any smarts when it comes to linux. But I am sure I have a wireless card. For some reason I think that this is an old infrared device. It's definitely an old laptop. I think that Debian detected it because when I did a netinstall of Debian, it asked me which network device I wanted it to use during the install and two devices showed up, one was eth0 and the other was wlan (or something like that, but obviously a wireless network device). I used the eth0 just cause I thought it was the better option. It's no sweat for me to just install debian again and actually try to use the wireless device. I can't keep debian because, for the life of me, I can't get debian to use my desired 1024 by 768 resolution.

oldhoghead: Here is the output of the command you told me to run.
paco@antiX1:~$ sux lshw -class network
Unknown id: lshw

I think I have a usb wireless doomagiggy. I don't have the software that comes with it, but maybe Antix will autodetect if I reinstall? Thanks again for you help and suggestions.

you ran:

paco@antiX1:~$ sux lshw -class network

first you must run
sux

then enter your root password, when the root prompt comes up then enter

lshw -class network

cheers,
oldhoghead

Ah. See. I don't have any linux smarts. But here's the output.

root@antiX1:/home/paco# lshw -class network
bash: lshw: command not found

ok,

lshw is not installed so

as root
apt-get update
apt-get install lshw

then after its installed then run the previous commands

cheers,
oldhoghead

Found it! I have a Netgear Wireless USB Adapter. Does that help? I've never used it before.

could you post the output of that command?

Ok. Here's the output of lshw

*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 8
bus info: pci@0000:02:08.0
logical name: eth0
version: 03
serial: 00:00:39:3f:da:3f
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e100 driverversion=3.5.24-k2-NAPI duplex=full firmware=N/A ip=192.168.0.100 latency=64 link=yes maxlatency=56 mingnt=8 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
resources: irq:11 memory:f7dff000-f7dfffff ioport:df40(size=64)
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 2
logical name: eth1
serial: 00:02:2d:24:f7:95
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=orinoco driverversion=0.15 firmware=Lucent/Agere 6.14 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11b

ok,

now run as root

ifup eth1

dhclient eth1

and then post output of
iwconfig