[SOLVED] Network manager problem

doragasu · 2012-03-03 21:26:48

Hi all!

I'm new to Arch Linux, but I have been using Ubuntu and other distros for a long time. Today I have installed Arch Linux in my laptop, and almost everything is running fine, but I'm having problems with networking. In my laptop I have attached a Conceptronic C300RC PCMCIA card. This card worked flawlessly in Ubuntu.

Using wired network, I have installed linux-firmware, networkmanager and network-manager-applet. It looks like nm-applet is running (I can see its process using ps), but in the notification area only the battery status icon is shown. Output to some (maybe useful) commands:

$ lsmod | grep rt
rt2800pci               7757  0 
rt2800lib              36992  1 rt2800pci
rt2x00pci               4255  1 rt2800pci
rt2x00lib              31059  3 rt2x00pci,rt2800lib,rt2800pci
eeprom_93cx6            1044  1 rt2800pci
crc_ccitt               1095  1 rt2800lib
mac80211              203227  3 rt2x00lib,rt2x00pci,rt2800lib
cfg80211              147716  2 mac80211,rt2x00lib
parport_pc             26590  0 
agpgart                22255  3 sis_agp,drm,ttm
parport                26259  2 parport_pc,ppdev
$ lspci | grep -i net
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91)
06:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT2760 Wireless 802.11n 1T/2R

I think the PCMCIA card is working (wlan0 interface is created), but I'd like to be able to use network manager to configure WiFi. Why isn't it working? Any suggestions?

Last edited by doragasu (2012-03-04 12:01:34)

allen875 · 2012-03-04 06:21:03

did you change the daemons list in your rc.conf file?

nano /etc/rc.conf

your daemons list should look something like this

# DAEMONS
# -------
#
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus networkmanager bluetooth rpcbind nfs-common crond)

Note that the network daemon needs changed to networkmanager.

doragasu · 2012-03-04 09:45:36

Thanks for help. You are right, I was not starting networkmanager. I changed network to networkmanager and still it wasn't working. Then I noticed I was starting networkmanager before dbus, changed the order and now it works perfect.

Again, thanks for help!

DSpider · 2012-03-04 09:51:16

Don't forget to mark it as solved (by editing the first post) so that other people (including yourself sometimes) get to it more easily.

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#1 2012-03-03 21:26:48

[SOLVED] Network manager problem

#2 2012-03-04 06:21:03

Re: [SOLVED] Network manager problem

#3 2012-03-04 09:45:36

Re: [SOLVED] Network manager problem

#4 2012-03-04 09:51:16

Re: [SOLVED] Network manager problem

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