O.K. different machine....just did 246 updates...wl came back or was there all the time.
I blacklisted wl using MXtools and wireless auto started. Interesting....yesterday wireless worked fine.
There's a glitch in the updates.
System: Host: m17aa Kernel: 4.14.0-3-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3
Distro: MX-17.1_x64 Horizon December 15 2017
Machine: Type: Laptop System: Panasonic product: CF-53AAGZX1M v: 001 serial: <root required>
Mobo: Panasonic model: CF53-1 v: 1 serial: <root required> BIOS: American Megatrends
v: 1.00L14 date: 07/12/2011
Battery: ID-1: BAT1 charge: 55.3 Wh condition: 55.3/84.9 Wh (65%)
CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-2520M bits: 64 type: MT MCP
L2 cache: 3072 KiB
Speed: 798 MHz min/max: 800/3200 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 851 2: 802 3: 807 4: 841
Graphics: Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics driver: i915
v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
resolution: 1366x768~58Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Sandybridge Mobile v: 3.3 Mesa 13.0.6
Audio: Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.14.0-3-amd64
Network: Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network driver: e1000e
IF: eth0 state: down mac: 70:58:12:e3:37:5f
Device-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] driver: iwlwifi
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 8c:70:5a:8b:49:50
Drives: Local Storage: total: 305.51 GiB used: 8.97 GiB (2.9%)
ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: SD8GB size: 7.42 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST9320320AS size: 298.09 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 290.41 GiB used: 8.97 GiB (3.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 44.7 C mobo: 44.7 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos: Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
1: deb
http://iso.mxrepo.com/antix/stretch stretch main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
2: deb
http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
1: deb [arch=amd64]
http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
1: deb
http://iso.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ stretch main non-free
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
Info: Processes: 206 Uptime: 10m Memory: 3.74 GiB used: 549.2 MiB (14.3%) Shell: init
inxi: 3.0.25