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Prowler

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Registered: 2011-05-16

Posts: 16

[SOLVED] No wired nor wireless internet

Hello, I'm pretty new to Arch, until now I've used xubuntu most of the time, but too many annoying uncontrollable things for my liking so I decided to try Arch. On my third try I got past the numerous installation problems (partitions, bootloader) and now I have installed Arch linux with no internet. Tried everything I can think of. including editing interface files, modprobing my module then ifconfig-ing it, modifying boot options and whatmore. I can confirm I do know which driver I need to use, as I can see it on the xubuntu install. Using chroot under xubuntu livecd, I installed xfce ifplugd, but to no avail. The main problem remains internet on Arch itself though.
With ifconfig I can see I have only lo as interface (which i can ping successfully) and (even after modprobing atl1c) using ifconfig eth0 up wields:

eth0: unknown interface; 
No such device

I will post the output of every other useful command I can think of.

lspci:
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet (rev c1)

the next shows I have the module i need (at least on xubuntu its loaded and it works, the command returns the same output)

lsmod | grep atl
atl1c                  34955  0

I created a "eth0" named file in /etc/network.d/interfaces/ according to the examples with content

CONNECTION='ethernet'
DESCRIPTION='A basic dhcp ethernet connection using iproute'
INTERFACE='eth0'
IP='dhcp'

Output of cat /etc/rc.conf

Heard the arch linux members are pretty active, hope it's true

Last edited by Prowler (2011-05-18 13:38:31)

Prowler

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Registered: 2011-05-16

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Re: [SOLVED] No wired nor wireless internet

No worries, because I couldn't resolve this one and no assisting from anyone either, fixed the problem by installing ArchBang Linux. Doesn't have wlan0 but at least eth0 works out of the box and probably saved myself a few headaches by it having a ready X server.

ewaller

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Re: [SOLVED] No wired nor wireless internet

Sorry Arch didn't seem to work out for you.  You are welcome to come back.

Could you post the output of lsmod from Arch Bang and of lspci -n for future reference  ??

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Prowler

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Registered: 2011-05-16

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Re: [SOLVED] No wired nor wireless internet

lsmod
lspci -n
I still have no wlan0, ill dig into that tomorrow. Anyway, even though I use Arch Bang, I enjoy the nice Arch way of managing configurations and packages. Pacman seems to work much faster than apt-get and the structure of configuration files is easy to use and remember.

PS: If you could Please tell me how ArchBang managed to activate eth0, that would really help me in my efforts to bring up wlan0 !!

Last edited by Prowler (2011-05-18 05:31:56)

Prowler

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Registered: 2011-05-16

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Re: [SOLVED] No wired nor wireless internet

Solved! Remembered that i had some problems with module r8192se_pci and iwpriv and that was the key. Steps i followed:
1. download rtl8192se-firmware from AUR
correct me if I'm wrong but i believe i dont need to get rtl8192se package from AUR for it is included in that firmware one. (got and installed both but believe the other one  wasnt needed)
2.  tar xfv <file>; cd <dir>
3.  makepkg
3. cd src/rtl8192se.....
4. su    - this one is IMPORTANT, couldn't do it with sudo, returns an error
5. make; make install
6. modprobe r8192se_pci; depmod -a
7. ifconfig wlan0 up; ifconfig
8. if all goes well add "r8192se_pci" to the modules section in /etc/rc.conf
note: i use wicd, thats why there arent additional steps, as wicd can now see wlan0 and manage it

PS: these are the steps that i followed, now that i look into them I see how makepkg isnt used/needed at all as i have used the manual method. Won't remove them though for I am unsure if both make and makepkg method work independently. Feel free to correct me, especially at 1. and 3.

Last edited by Prowler (2011-05-18 13:39:43)