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#1 2011-01-07 15:29:53

golfish
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Wireless setup

I am having troubles setting up my wlan0. I have this card: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)
Which driver package do I need and how do go about setting it up?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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#2 2011-01-07 15:37:39

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Re: Wireless setup

Define troubles.

Have you searched the forums and the wiki ??

Welcome to the Arch forums. Here at Arch we expect that our users try to take the effort to resolve problems before asking on the forums. Our wiki is a great start. Searching the forums might also lead you to solutions that other users might have tried.

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#3 2011-01-07 15:39:42

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Re: Wireless setup

I looked at the Wireless setup page on the wiki and did some general searches for linux drivers for that particular card.

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#4 2011-01-07 15:41:25

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Re: Wireless setup

I mainly need to know what driver to use. I probably can install and set it up with out a problem.

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#5 2011-01-07 15:42:52

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Re: Wireless setup

golfish wrote:

I looked at the Wireless setup page on the wiki and did some general searches for linux drivers for that particular card.

Then you surely must have found this


https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wi … 000-series

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#6 2011-01-07 15:45:47

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Re: Wireless setup

I looked at that. Will that work for my card? It doesn't actualy list the 3945ABG.

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#7 2011-01-07 15:46:57

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Re: Wireless setup

Nvm, please forgive my blindness and stupidity. I swear I did look through that page. Wow I feel dumb. I cant believe I ddin't see that.

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#8 2011-01-07 17:22:56

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Re: Wireless setup

I installed the driver and then tried to activate the card with: "ifconfig wlan0 up"
Immedietly it spit back the following output"
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not possible due to RF-kill

I then looked on a forum and found someone who said to install rfkill.
I did this then attempted to unblock my wireless lan as root:

# rfkill list
0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: yes
        Hard blocked: yes
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: yes
# rfkill unblock 0
# rfkill list
0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: yes
        Hard blocked: yes
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: yes

whats going on and whiy cant I activate my wireless card?

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#9 2011-01-07 17:32:46

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Re: Wireless setup

http://linuxtrap.wordpress.com/2009/11/ … ll-laptop/

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#10 2011-01-07 17:40:31

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Re: Wireless setup

thanks it worked!

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#11 2011-01-07 18:34:09

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Re: Wireless setup

Ok my wireles card in enabled I can even see networks. I installed wpa_supplicant and was following this page:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/WPA_Supplicant
I did what they told me to do but I cant connect to my network. I dont have any idea whats going on. please help.

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#12 2011-01-07 18:52:15

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Re: Wireless setup

golfish, when you say you have trouble or "its not working", how are we to help you ?

Give us the commands that you tried. Post the errors that you get if something is not working.

Please read our forum rules and abide by them.

Here are two specific rules that you should read:

# 1 -- https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … troduction

#15 -- https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … way_Street

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#13 2011-01-07 19:07:33

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Re: Wireless setup

I apologize. When I input the command "ifconfig wlan0 up" It didn't spit back any output. I assumed it worked but I cant access the internet. As you can see I dont have any experience in wifi setup and use in linux. What do you need to know. Give me commands that that I can give you the output of.

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#14 2011-01-07 19:09:05

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Re: Wireless setup

Lets start off with 

ifconfig

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#15 2011-01-07 19:13:21

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Re: Wireless setup

this is the output:

# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:C5:B2:9D:5D  
          inet addr:192.168.1.5  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::215:c5ff:feb2:9d5d/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:26687 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:12324 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:28876778 (27.5 Mb)  TX bytes:1554082 (1.4 Mb)
          Interrupt:17 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:18:DE:29:6A:28  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

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#16 2011-01-07 19:17:07

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Re: Wireless setup

Oh I forgot I am currently accessing the internet via eth0. do I need to unplug and try again or anything?

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#17 2011-01-07 19:20:31

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Re: Wireless setup

Probably yes. sometimes both connections dont seem to wrok together. Make sure you restart network just in case.

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#18 2011-01-07 19:23:06

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Re: Wireless setup

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:C5:B2:9D:5D  
          inet6 addr: fe80::215:c5ff:feb2:9d5d/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:27923 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:13091 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:29276455 (27.9 Mb)  TX bytes:1802699 (1.7 Mb)
          Interrupt:17 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:18:DE:29:6A:28  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

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#19 2011-01-07 19:43:49

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Re: Wireless setup

Are you using any wireless network manager to connect to an SSID or are you planning on doing this via CLI?

If you don't have a preference, then you can use wicd, which in my experience is pretty intuitive and easy to use.

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#20 2011-01-07 19:48:18

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Re: Wireless setup

I dont know whether or not I am using a network manager. So I assume I am not. I have been struggling for like six hours today. I am going to get back to you tomorrow after I have installed wicd. Thanks for helping me so far.

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#21 2011-01-07 21:55:05

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Re: Wireless setup

To help you a bit on the way, a network manager is not installed on your system as a default, so wicd or netcfg is good options. For wicd the wiki article is very easy to follow: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wicd

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#22 2011-01-08 05:23:33

ithil
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Re: Wireless setup

This is a script i use to start my wireless:

#!/bin/bash
ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 essid (router) key (for WEP only consult the wiki for other encryption types)
ifconfig wlan0 down
ifconfig wlan0 up
dhcpcd wlan0

Make the script exacutable by entering the command:

chmod u+x (filename)

Now just enter this last command and it should work (at least it does for me)

sudo bash (filename)

Hope this helps, and remember wiki=AMAZING.

Last edited by ithil (2011-01-08 05:26:14)

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