Appreciate the patience, but the goal is to not have it workable but fully-functional and/or understand any issues. Are you running live or is this a HD install?
Honestly, I can't replicate that in a vanilla RC7 so my hunch is that we may either be miscommunicating or perhaps there is something amiss with your install. inxi (which is a command to report system details) works live or virtualbox or installed, here.
If you are not keeping the eeepc offline (and even if you are afterwards), you should do a few things once:
- Toggle-on the firewall in the control center (under Network)
- Choose the "DSL File Restore" op in the middle of the main menu
- Update the system (Software->Manage Packages in control center, yes to run update, then no to not run it again, then arrow-up twice & enter to upgrade the packages it found, & Continue)
- Skim /usr/share/dsl/FAQ/index.html if you haven't, but, *more* importantly for a new user, read the antiX FAQ will (/usr/share/antiX/FAQ/index.html)
Personally, I would also install the ad blocking while you're in the package manager (search for advert-block-antix) and run that (it will appear under Network in the control center after you install it).
- Lastly, turn on zram (gui tool not in CC, do by hand )
Code:
sudo /usr/local/bin/zram start
That way, in a pinch, you *can* take it out on a network safely if you need to sometime even if you only wish to use it offline and you will have loaded all the missing pieces (such as man pages to understand what the inxi command is/does, etc).
The touchpad is pretty important to get right so we might be able to get you in better shape if you can do those things. Other people have had better luck with older kernels, sometimes, etc. Also very curious to know if the issue persists after the updates are applied. If you didn't know, you can search upstream (antixforum.com) for issues you have as well.
You've chosen a pretty bare-metal introduction to linux (without any handholding) so the path to solutions may all seem pretty low-level but it's also crazy-flexible for those with the interest. Read the local copy of that antiX FAQ for starters (and links included therein to help guide you).
