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_artem_

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Registered: 2010-09-17

Posts: 37

[Solved] too many problems with arch on Acer Aspire 8943G

hi all.

first off I'm not a completely newbie. I used arch for about 6 month 1 year ago as my only OS.

now I got new laptop (Acer Aspire 8943G) and nightmare began....

1 — I'm able to install 2010.05 BUUUUUUUUT I can't use internet AT ALL because my eth0 is Atheros AR8151 and it's even not showing up in ifconfig...; my wlan0 is Atheros AR5B893 it's working (I guess) but I can't connect to my router (WPA2) I even set it to non-encrypted but even so I can't connect to it..
wpa_supplicant is correctly configured BUT it's not working... iwconfig wlan0 shows that it's associated to my SSID but Encryption: OFF...  WTF !??!?!?! I configured my wpa_supplicant.conf the same way as it was in the wiki, and it's the same way it worked on my previous laptop with ipw4965 AGN..
("proto=RSN.. key_mgmt=WPA-PSK... pairwise=CCMP TKIP.... group=CCMP TKIP") but I just can't connect to it..

2 — I tried to install 2010.08 (archboot) but that on this one I can't even do a first-start after installation. GRUB can't find a file.. I guess it can't find vmlinuz26 and kernel.img BUT I did clean install 3 times. Arch gives no errors, says installation was successful, grub installation successful but it can't boot arch. (I described the whole situation here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 73#p827473 )

Arch Community please help me... I'm f@..ing myself with this issues for 3 days already........

is there a way to download Arch Linux 2010.05 but with the latest kernel because the latest kernels support my Atheros hardware out-of-the-box :-/

Last edited by _artem_ (2010-09-17 20:34:56)

litemotiv

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Registered: 2008-08-01

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Re: [Solved] too many problems with arch on Acer Aspire 8943G

You could put the kernel26 package from 2010.08 on an usbstick, install 2010.05 and after reboot upgrade the kernel with pacman -U.

edit: removed packages that you probably don't need

Last edited by litemotiv (2010-09-17 18:14:35)

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_artem_

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Registered: 2010-09-17

Posts: 37

Re: [Solved] too many problems with arch on Acer Aspire 8943G

I'll give it a try thanks.

_artem_

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Registered: 2010-09-17

Posts: 37

Re: [Solved] too many problems with arch on Acer Aspire 8943G

litemotiv I love you ^_^

there was a dependence to linux-firmare..

so I copied (in windows) kernel26-* and linux-firmware* to my flash drive..
then restarted and booted into Arch 2010.05 (2.6.33).

echo "/dev/sdd1 /media/flash auto ro,user" >> /etc/fstab

mkdir /media/flash

mount /dev/sdd1

cp /media/flash/* /home/_artem_/
cd /home/_artem_
pacman -Rd kernel-firmware
pacman -U ./*
reboot

just after that I booted into 2.6.35.2

ifconfig showed me eth0, ping -c 3 archlinux.org gave me output )
pacman -Syu

now I have 2.6.35.4 )

THANK YOU!! )

litemotiv

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Re: [Solved] too many problems with arch on Acer Aspire 8943G

Good to hear _artem_, glad to have you back on Arch.

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_artem_

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Registered: 2010-09-17

Posts: 37

Re: [Solved] too many problems with arch on Acer Aspire 8943G