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Hello people i'm new to arch and im trying the wiki guide(which is really chaotic) to connect to my wifi. but
ifconfig wlan0 up
returns
wlan0: unknown interface : No such device
Why it doesn't work?
Last edited by sepuku (2011-03-17 09:29:23)
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Try running "ifconfig" and see if there's really a wlan0 interface.
And make sure your wireless card is enabled.
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Ifconfig returns:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:38:D2:D5:A3
inet addr:192.168.1.3 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21b:38ff:fed2:d5a3/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:363 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:416 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:285962 (279.2 Kb) TX bytes:59885 (58.4 Kb)
Interrupt:40 Base address:0x2000
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)
why wlan0 is not there?
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have you installed the drivers for you wlan card? what type of card is it?
There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idiots !
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Hello Inxsible i'm not sure after so many commands! i really am confused but i think i have installed the driver!
lspci | grep -i net gives:
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 Ethernet (rev a2)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
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