topic title: antiX-15-beta1-V ready for testing
Posts: 2,238
dolphin_oracle
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
#31
ie: network interfaces

I cannot duplicate samK's issues with the network interfaces not picking up. I've now tried 3 pc's and a VB install on a fourth machine. In all cases, the wired interface was picked up automatically, as long as the interface is named eth0.

On wireless, all my wireless adapters are picked up. i can configure with either wicd or ceni.

As far as jerry's findings with his wired/wireless, wicd does not show the wired inteface by default unless the wired is already connected. there is a preference setting to change that behavior (checkbox to 'always display wired interface'). Hotplugging a wired interface worked on the one desktop machine I have with broadcom wireless and intel wired, however it did cause some strangeness in the wicd display.

the asus 904ha netbook has a tendency to freeze up when using ceni, however, it does eventually settle down and allow ceni to work. This is on a live session, haven't tried installed on that machine. wicd works fine without freezing.

Here's the inxi -F on the 904ha.

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demo@antiX1:~
$ inxi -F
System:    Host: antiX1 Kernel: 3.19.1-antix.1-486-smp i686 (32 bit)
           Desktop: IceWM 1.3.8
           Distro: antiX-15-beta1-V_386-full Killah P 16 March 2015
Machine:   System: ASUSTeK product: 1000H v: x.x
           Mobo: ASUSTeK model: 1000H v: x.xx
           Bios: American Megatrends v: 1206 date: 10/17/2008
CPU:       Single core Intel Atom N270 (-HT-) cache: 512 KB 
           clock speeds: max: 1600 MHz 1: 1067 MHz 2: 1333 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel Mobile 945GSE Express Integrated Graphics Controller
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1024x600@59.52hz
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945GME x86/MMX/SSE2
           GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 10.3.2
Audio:     Card Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: ALSA v: k3.19.1-antix.1-486-smp
Network:   Card-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
           driver: ath5k
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: 00:22:43:56:88:b5
           Card-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit or Fast Ethernet
           driver: ATL1E
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: 00:23:54:81:78:aa
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 176.1GB (0.4% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: ST9160827AS size: 160.0GB
           ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: Cruzer_Glide size: 16.0GB
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 36.0C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 0
Info:      Processes: 93 Uptime: 1 min Memory: 86.5/2011.3MB
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.16
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#32
My test so far. Ceni connects wpa2 wireless pcmcia N card OK in live without a wired connection. As far as installs go. I am now on my 3rd attempt. Seems after install.
Vesa defaults to 800X600 and CPU is hammering at 100%.

Not sure why

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demo@antiX1:~
$ inxi -G
Graphics:  Card: S3 Graphics SuperSavage IX/C SDR
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 driver: vesa
           Resolution: 1280x1024@61.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.5, 128 bits)
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.3.2
I am not using the savage driver at all in live mode and screen is hard to read after a install
with lines going through all GUI apps like Terminal, Menu, Conky, and rox file manager.

So very hard to deal with.

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$ su
Password: 
root@antiX1:/home/demo# parted -l
Model: ATA ST980815A (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system     Flags
 1      1049kB  8591MB  8590MB  primary   ext4
 3      8591MB  27.9GB  19.3GB  primary   ext4
 4      27.9GB  77.9GB  50.0GB  extended
 5      27.9GB  77.9GB  50.0GB  logical   ext4
 2      77.9GB  80.0GB  2147MB  primary   linux-swap(v1)
Model: Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 2004MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
 1      1049kB  2004MB  2003MB  primary  fat32        boot
partition setup above. I usually install. Then symlink showing folders in home like Music and Videos to the data partition to save on space in home and it makes reinstalls easier later.

Installer is saying smartctl that my drive passes but predicts it will die in a year.
Like I am not having a hard enough time.
Test results and still trying. Off to try another install. If someone can tell me how to edit
the kernel line in grub menu after install on the fly for a cli boot without slim.
so I can run smxi. I'm all ears.
I tried putting a"3" in the advanced SYSINV 2nd grub boot line.
But I was taken to slim anyways. Maybe because I did not put the"3" on the end of the kernel line. But inbetween SYSINV and the kernel line. Maybe I should have put it on the very very end?
Posts: 1,028
SamK
Joined: 21 Aug 2011
#33
anticapitalista wrote:
SamK wrote:Missing minimize, restore, close graphics
post39391.html#p39391
Addressed=no
I cannot reproduce this. Can anyone else?
I cannot find a way to reproduce this on demand, although it always presents at some stage during a session. They are always there at the start of a the session, then unpredicatbly disappear.
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dolphin_oracle
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
#34
running live with persistence. Network interface names will particular to the individual machine, as udev pegs the interface name to a device's mac address. On the live without persistence, the rule file that does this is being deleted.

If one is going to use live with persistence on multiple machines, you have a couple of options network-wise.

1. if you use wicd, you will have to change the name of the interfaces in preferences everytime you change machines.
2. or you can use ceni, which will just write a new line in / etc/network/interfaces for each interface name and network combination. The only times you'll need to resuse ceni after the first time are when you change wireless networks with a already defined device or when you add a new machine.

While its tempting to suggest that the rules file be deleted on the persistent live as well, there is a catch. udev interface naming is not necessarily consistent across reboots. So if you have two devices in one machine with similar naming ( say one named eth0 and one named eth1), its possible that without the rules file in place, those names can switch (and in fact can switch right now on the live w/o persistence media).

yay udev.

Anyway, here's an inxi -F on a Thinkpad T420. don't tell anyone, this is a work computer.

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demo@antiX1:~
$ inxi -F
System:    Host: antiX1 Kernel: 3.19.1-antix.1-486-smp i686 (32 bit)
           Desktop: IceWM 1.3.8
           Distro: antiX-15-beta1-V_386-full Killah P 16 March 2015
Machine:   System: LENOVO product: 4177QKU v: ThinkPad T420
           Mobo: LENOVO model: 4177QKU
           Bios: LENOVO v: 83ET69WW (1.39 ) date: 03/26/2012
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core i5-2410M (-HT-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB 
           clock speeds: max: 2900 MHz 1: 1534 MHz 2: 1751 MHz 3: 1830 MHz
           4: 2445 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1600x900@60.01hz
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Sandybridge Mobile x86/MMX/SSE2
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.3.2
Audio:     Card Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: ALSA v: k3.19.1-antix.1-486-smp
Network:   Card-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection driver: e1000e
           IF: eth1 state: down mac: 00:21:cc:62:6a:4b
           Card-2: Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1000 [Condor Peak]
           driver: iwlwifi
           IF: wlan1 state: up mac: 8c:a9:82:9a:be:9e
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 336.1GB (0.3% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: TOSHIBA_MK3261GS size: 320.1GB
           ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: Cruzer_Glide size: 16.0GB
Partition: ID-1: /home size: 2.3G used: 35M (2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/loop1
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 44.0C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 1958
Info:      Processes: 135 Uptime: 2 min Memory: 156.2/3452.3MB
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.16 
demo@antiX1:~
$
note that on this machine, the second of which I've used this persistent liveUSB, the network interface names are wlan1 and eth1. incidently, the conky network monitors assume wlan0 and eth0, so on this machine they do not automatically pop up on connection.
Posts: 1,028
SamK
Joined: 21 Aug 2011
#35
dolphin_oracle wrote:I cannot duplicate samK's issues with the network interfaces not picking up. I've now tried 3 pc's and a VB install on a fourth machine. In all cases, the wired interface was picked up automatically, as long as the interface is named eth0.

On wireless, all my wireless adapters are picked up. i can configure with either wicd or ceni.
This is all live with no persistence. Wired is pot luck but often works without prompting. In beta1 wireless just does not work at all. In alpha5 at least I could get wireless to work some of the time. Now both WICD and Ceni fail with wireless even when they recognise the adaptor or are given the correct details, irrespective of whether wired is working or not.
Posts: 2,238
dolphin_oracle
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
#36
SamK wrote:
dolphin_oracle wrote:I cannot duplicate samK's issues with the network interfaces not picking up. I've now tried 3 pc's and a VB install on a fourth machine. In all cases, the wired interface was picked up automatically, as long as the interface is named eth0.

On wireless, all my wireless adapters are picked up. i can configure with either wicd or ceni.
This is all live with no persistence. Wired is pot luck but often works without prompting. In beta1 wireless just does not work at all. In alpha5 at least I could get wireless to work some of the time. Now both WICD and Ceni fail with wireless even when they recognise the adaptor or are given the correct details, irrespective of whether wired is working or not.
is this with a particular driver maybe? I noticed in the inxi-F reports from your older reports, you have a broadcom and an atheros (ath9k). If I recall correctly, one of your machines has interfaces named eth0 and eth1, correct?
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#37
And after 3rd install. You get to see what I am dealing with. IBM T23.
Image

Image

My screen does not look as pretty or as easy to read as the scrot shots show.
It is way messier in real life.

So giving up today. I am up for suggestions on what to delete or post from /etc/X11
via a live session from /dev/sda1 root partition on internal drive.

I am not going to touch anything in case I delete or change the wrong thing.
Can you imagine though. The IBM with savage graphics posts after we go
final with a desktop like I posted above? My patched a5 behaved better
on the 30 gig ide drive I installed it to that is sitting in the laptop bag.

I won't know what to tell clueless new users? Other than install a different distro
or buy a different used laptop.

Rant over. It is raining outside and I'd rather be riding motorcycle. __{{emoticon}}__
So any

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cat / etc/X11/xxxxxxx
anyone needs. I am up for it!

Sad on Mexican Border with a IBM T23, signing off, ROK
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male
Joined: 04 Nov 2011
#38
I can not confirm the above problems with wicd.

I install on a machine with wlan then I use wicd. So that I know my way around. (I am familiar with ceni not, so I do not use it)

wicd will change from cable to wirless and back, no problem. With the live-ISO just like an installation.

of course, must be in the relevant startup file

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wicd-client -t &
(do not be irritated with me wlan = eth0)
anticapitalista
Posts: 5,955
Site Admin
Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#39
roky - when you have time and are feeling less stressed, could you have a look at these threads. No idea if they will help or not.


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male
Joined: 04 Nov 2011
#40
roky wrote:If someone can tell me how to edit
the kernel line in grub menu after install on the fly for a cli boot without slim.
so I can run smxi. I'm all ears.
at login dialog slim:

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Ctrl+Alt+F1
login as root
init 3
apt-get update
.....
init 5 && reboot
hope this helps __{{emoticon}}__
anticapitalista
Posts: 5,955
Site Admin
Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#41
Simly add 3 at the boot menu.
Posts: 325
male
Joined: 04 Nov 2011
#42
Live-ISO vom usb am Desktop

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demo@antiX1:~
$ inxi -Fxz
System:    Host: antiX1 Kernel: 3.19.1-antix.1-486-smp i686 (32 bit gcc: 4.9.2)
           Desktop: IceWM 1.3.8 Distro: antiX-15-beta1-V_386-full Killah P 16 March 2015
Machine:   Mobo: ASUSTeK model: P5Q-PRO v: Rev 1.xx
           Bios: American Megatrends v: 2102 date: 02/23/2009
CPU:       Quad core Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 (-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB
           flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 21332
           clock speeds: max: 2670 MHz 1: 2003 MHz 2: 2336 MHz 3: 2003 MHz 4: 2336 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Barts XT [Radeon HD 6870] bus-ID: 01:00.0
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 driver: vesa Resolution: 1280x1024@0.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.5, 128 bits)
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.3.2 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card-1 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Barts HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6800 Series]
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1
           Card-2 Intel 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k3.19.1-antix.1-486-smp
Network:   Card-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit or Fast Ethernet
           driver: ATL1E port: cc00 bus-ID: 02:00.0
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Techsan B2C2 FlexCopII DVB chip / Technisat SkyStar2 DVB card
           driver: b2c2_flexcop_pci port: ec00 bus-ID: 05:01.0
           IF: N/A state: N/A speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1508.4GB (1.0% used) ID-1: /dev/sda model: ST3250820AS size: 250.1GB
           ID-2: /dev/sdb model: WD2502ABYS size: 250.1GB
           ID-3: /dev/sdc model: DriveXpert_HDD0 size: 1000.2GB
           ID-4: USB /dev/sdd model: U3_Titanium size: 8.0GB
Partition: ID-1: swap-1 size: 15.71GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 26.5C mobo: 43.0C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 721 psu: 0 sys-1: 0 sys-2: 803
Info:      Processes: 119 Uptime: 1 min Memory: 115.3/3288.4MB
           Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 4.9.2 Client: Shell (bash 4.3.301) inxi: 2.2.16
1280x1024 resolution is not set higher
(I need 1680x1050)
wappern all windows, , pull

network (wicd) ok
audio ok
video ok

I will test an installation.
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#43
Don't ask me how I fixed this. Because all I did was Ctl+Alt+F1 to get out of GUI at slim login. I logged in at cli. Then logged into root with su.

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apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-savage
That remove 2 packages. Savage driver and xserver-xorg-video all.

then I did

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apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-vesa
That just removed vesa driver. Then next I did

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apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-vesa
to reinstall vesa fresh/virgin.
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exit
to get out of root terminal. Then Ctrl+Alt+F7 or so till I got back to slim login screen (I can't remember which F key exactly). Logged into this

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harry@antix1:~
$ inxi -G
Graphics:  Card: S3 Graphics SuperSavage IX/C SDR
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 drivers: vesa (unloaded: fbdev)
           Resolution: 1024x768@61.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.5, 128 bits)
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.3.2
CPU has quit hammering at 100%. Hell if I know how my poke and hope fixed this. What she looks like now.
Image

So. Install looks like it is now good. I have yet to reboot though.
Before this. Every 3rd boot or so was a hard freeze/lockup that I
had not mentioned previously on the install on internal hard drive.
Live boot was OK. Still using Ceni for wireless on this installation.
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#44
anticapitalista wrote:roky - when you have time and are feeling less stressed, could you have a look at these threads. No idea if they will help or not.


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I read and tried as root after cd'ing into / etc/X11 in cli

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Xorg -configure
It errored out about a lock in /tmp and said I need to remove it and try again.
So I rm the lock file and try again.
Then errors all over the place and now I lock up hard after logging in with slim. My fix is above this post on how
I dug myself out of this hole. __{{emoticon}}__
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james c
Joined: 23 Apr 2014
#45
Another install on a bit older hardware.

On the first attempt the installer froze at 95% along with the mouse and keyboard and everything else. Second attempt went better.

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$ inxi -F
System:    Host: antix1 Kernel: 3.19.1-antix.1-486-smp i686 (32 bit)
           Desktop: IceWM 1.3.8
           Distro: antiX-15-beta1-V_386-full Killah P 16 March 2015
Machine:   System: Compaq product: iPaq
           Mobo: Compaq model: 0630h
           Bios: Compaq v: 686J5 v2.05 date: 07/07/2000
CPU:       Single core Pentium III (Coppermine) (-UP-) cache: 256 KB
           speed: 730 MHz (max)
Graphics:  Card: Intel 82810E DC-133 (CGC) Graphics Controller
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1024x768@85.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.5, 128 bits)
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.3.2
Audio:     Card Intel 82801AA AC'97 Audio Controller driver: snd_intel8x0
           Sound: ALSA v: k3.19.1-antix.1-486-smp
Network:   Card: Intel 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 driver: e100
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full
           mac: 00:d0:b7:e2:97:1f
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 41.1GB (8.6% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: Maxtor_6K040L0 size: 41.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 5.7G used: 2.4G (45%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda14
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 1.04GB used: 0.04GB (4%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda7
Sensors:   None detected - is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Info:      Processes: 83 Uptime: 9 min Memory: 164.3/243.8MB
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.16

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$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        249656     245440       4216       1400       3476      77000
-/+ buffers/cache:     164964      84692
Swap:      1020092      39416     980676