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sepuku

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From: HELL

Registered: 2010-12-12

Posts: 35

Unable to connect to wireless through xterm

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)

lives2evil

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From: GMT+7

Registered: 2010-03-21

Posts: 244

Re: Unable to connect to wireless through xterm

Try running "ifconfig" and see if there's really a wlan0 interface.
And make sure your wireless card is enabled.

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sepuku

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From: HELL

Registered: 2010-12-12

Posts: 35

Re: Unable to connect to wireless through xterm

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?

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: Unable to connect to wireless through xterm

have you installed the drivers for you wlan card? what type of card is it?

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sepuku

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From: HELL

Registered: 2010-12-12

Posts: 35

Re: Unable to connect to wireless through xterm

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)