Archmobile and wpa_supplicant (wireless internet)

Wesman26 · 2010-07-25 20:20:33

So I got a freerunner for christmas and recently I decided to pick up the task of putting archmobile on it again. I am however running into some trouble, I need to update with pacman but I can't connect to the internet. I've tried this and I couldn't get it to work, so I tried setting up wireless since I've done that several times with my netbook and not had any problems. I used wpa_supplicant because I have a WPA2 encryption on my router, but when I try running wpa_supplicant over ssh I get the following about four times:

ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported

I assume it has something to do with the drivers, however, I'm not sure how to fix the problem if I can't connect to the internet to update them. If it means anything I'm operating off the september 09 snapshots, I'm not sure if I should be, but oh well.

Thank you in advance,
--Wes

karol · 2010-07-25 20:50:28

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/WPA … leshooting
You can download the new drivers and copy them to your archmobile.

Last edited by karol (2010-07-25 20:51:46)

Wesman26 · 2010-07-26 20:17:51

Where would I find the drivers for downloading? And where should I copy them in?
(Sorry, I've never encountered this problem before)

karol · 2010-07-26 20:38:34

I've never used Archmobile, but if it uses the regular drivers, you can try them. I have absolutely no idea which drivers you need for the freerunner.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O … _Search=Go <- no drivers, just some tools

Last edited by karol (2010-07-26 20:39:56)

Wesman26 · 2010-07-26 20:58:53

Thank you very much, I'll continue on with these options and if I need help I'll post something else.

karol · 2010-07-26 20:59:50

I'm not sure how well Archmobile project is doing, are they updating packages etc.

Wesman26 · 2010-07-27 06:02:58

I've figured out how to get the internet over USB, but that's not exactly the point of having a device that fits comfortably in my pocket. I've run an update with pacman -Syu and wpa_supplicant still refuses to work, I am receiving the same error. It is discouraging to say the least.

rott_at · 2010-07-28 19:14:41

ArchMobile is currently "not working". We are working on a solution to keep our repos up-to-date automatically, so please be patient until we write next big news

mikestaszel · 2010-08-14 05:44:27

How about trying Plugbox repos? I'll admit bias, I'm the lead dev, but it's something you can try.

http://plugapps.com/arm/$repo

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#1 2010-07-25 20:20:33

Archmobile and wpa_supplicant (wireless internet)

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