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RichAustin

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Registered: 2011-07-27

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[SOLVED] DOH! I forgot to install the network

Hi All

Well, a real "doh!" moment this morning. I decided to install Arch onto my desktop box, setup the wireless network in the boot cd environment, and duly installed everything including Gnome etc. When I rebooted I added a user, set gdm as the manager and so on. Reboot and no network.

It seems I must have missed out netcfg at least, hence the "doh!" moment. Question here is how to install it without doing a complete reinstall? Ideally I'd like the gnome-network-applet as well as netcfg but mainly I want to get the network up and running - I'm not too bothered how or what needs to be done. Cable to my router is not an option so I figure that there must be a way to achieve this install from the Arch installation CD but I have no idea how to go about it.

Any suggestions?

Rich

[EDIT]

Just thinking about it and I guess it would be possible to boot the install cd, setup the wireless network from there which is easy enough, and then chroot into the installed system. Am I on the right lines with this idea?

Last edited by RichAustin (2011-10-30 09:43:50)

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Re: [SOLVED] DOH! I forgot to install the network

Good idea.  You could alternatively just download the needed packages from any os and place them on a usb drive.  Use packman with the -U option to install.

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Re: [SOLVED] DOH! I forgot to install the network

Do you have wpa_supplicant and wireless-tools installed?

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tomk

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Re: [SOLVED] DOH! I forgot to install the network

setup the wireless network in the boot cd environment

If you can do that, you can do it in the installed environment too.

I honestly don't understand what your issue is.

RichAustin

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Re: [SOLVED] DOH! I forgot to install the network

I solved this in the end by downloading netcfg and copying onto the new system.