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Hey. I just installed arch linux on my acer laptop (an older one... travel mate 2300) and I have a wpc100 linksys PCMIA wireless card. I installed the core and some of the dev packages (mostly wireless tools, ndiswrapper and similar things) off of the core install disk. I got the ndiswrapper driver working, and got it to connect with iwconfig. when i type iwconfig everything shows up right. it appears to be connected perfectly.
then I go to ping a website...
ping: unknown host google.com
I go to try and run pacman -Syu.... failed retreiving file 'core.db.tar.gz' from mirrors.kernel.org ; No adress record
so it is connected to the internet but the internet is broken. haha.
I am connected to the same network on the computer I am posting this from and it works fine.
thanks for any help you can give me here.
Last edited by legitimus maximus (2010-08-11 19:02:40)
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Sounds like you haven't configured a DNS server. Check /etc/resolv.conf.
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Sounds like you haven't configured a DNS server. Check /etc/resolv.conf.
you are right. I tried editing it to make it the same as the one on this computer... but then after a reboot it went back to the same.
is there another way you are supposed to edit it? I bet the answer is really obvious. I just used nano and saved the file.
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resolv.conf is generated by dhcpcd. Are you using DHCP to get an IP address? That is, after you do all the iwconfig stuff, run `dhcpcd wlan0` to connect and get an IP address. Then, you should have a domain and nameserver set in resolv.conf.
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resolv.conf is generated by dhcpcd. Are you using DHCP to get an IP address? That is, after you do all the iwconfig stuff, run `dhcpcd wlan0` to connect and get an IP address. Then, you should have a domain and nameserver set in resolv.conf.
IT WORKS!
thanks man.
should have come here before wasting 2 hours doing the same shit over and over again.
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