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Actually AntiX is excactly what I was looking for all the time - BUT there are still some annoying problems left. 1. WLAN can not be established. On a different PC using a VM it does however! 2. Neither CD- drive nor USB can be mounted. 3. During installation of drivers for printer it says:"Disable CD sources in your apt sources list" What the hell is that again? There are no sources, so there is no list. Und if there were, I would not know where to look for (:-( Is there anybody who could help me?

for the wireless, you problaby need to put the name of your wireless interface in the wicd preferences. in antix 13.2, its left black by default.

1. open the terminal and type"inxi -i". this will output the name of all of your interfaces. find the wireless one (probably wlan0 or wlan1) and type that into the prefernces of wicd (found in the Internet menu).

2. You are probably using ROX as your file manager, which is the default. You can mounting with spacefm (Menus>Tools>Filers>spacefm). If that works, I suggest enabling spacefm to start in daemon mode. It will sit in the background and wait for pluggable devices to show up. The will be accessible in /media whether you use spacefm or rox. to enable that feature, open the Control Center and select"edit Icwem Settings" (second row, right button). You'll get a text editor open up will all the icewm configuration files in tabs. click on the startup tab, and find the commented line that reads"run spacefm -d to automount plug-in device..." and uncomment the startup line below (spacefm -d &). Logout and log back in and you should be automounting usb's and CD's.

3. I'm unsure what is happening here. What printer driver are you trying to install, and what is the source (repos, downloaded file, etc...) There are no cd sources enabled by default in antiX. You can check sources in synaptic in the Settings>Repositories menu item from inside synaptic.

thanks for your hints. I followed the very informativ videos on youtube and got antix in fact recognize my wifi - BUT when I try to connect it the system halts!
As to the mounting problem I followed your advices and cancled the line" Do NOt use..." with now effect...?

did you log out and back in?

the mounts should be visible in /media.

we could use the inxi -i information to diagnose the network interface.

I'm also curious about your cd sources problem. This shouldn't be even possible, so I'm starting to wonder if the iso you downloaded got corrupted somehow.

which antix version are you using?

to start from the end. My AntiX version is 3.7.10 - antix.5 - 486 smp

As to the mounting problems, I can see and open USB and CD media on /Media via spacefm. But this is a rather complicated way of getting to the contents. From Ubuntu and other Linux Versions I know, that once a media is mounted an icon apears on the desktop which gives you immediate access to the media.

The wifi problem is still pending. I can see the accessable wifis on wicd but once I try to get connected ( of course I provided the key first ) the system halts

leo08 wrote:to start from the end. My AntiX version is 3.7.10 - antix.5 - 486 smp

As to the mounting problems, I can see and open USB and CD media on /Media via spacefm. But this is a rather complicated way of getting to the contents. From Ubuntu and other Linux Versions I know, that once a media is mounted an icon apears on the desktop which gives you immediate access to the media.

well, that is one of the trade offs with not having a real desktop environment. the window manager setup of antix works better on old gear and is quite responsive, but you don't have those little niceties like icons appearing on the desktop.

however, there are book mark features of both rox and spacefm that make getting to those areas quicker. and I like to put an item in my top-level menu for"rox /media" that opens directly to the media folder.

If you are using the spacefm desktop options, I believe you can set spacefm to open a window automatically when a usb or cdrom is inserted.