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ipburbank

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Registered: 2014-04-30

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Another Wifi Problem

Hello,
I am new to arch and like many newbies seem to have wifi trouble. I installed wicd, and attempted to connect to my School's wifi. I have read a several threads and tried several solutions to no avail (though the errors changed several times). I am using an ASUS G74SX-DH17. Here are some diagnostics:

journalctl -f:

May 04 17:10:53 ISTVAN-ARCH dhcpcd[2477]: sending commands to master dhcpcd process
May 04 17:10:53 ISTVAN-ARCH dhcpcd[328]: control command: /usr/sbin/dhcpcd -k wlp3s0
May 04 17:10:53 ISTVAN-ARCH dhcpcd[328]: wlp3s0: removing interface
May 04 17:10:53 ISTVAN-ARCH wicd[283]: dhcpcd[2477]: sending commands to master dhcpcd process
May 04 17:10:53 ISTVAN-ARCH kernel: IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp3s0: link is not ready
May 04 17:10:53 ISTVAN-ARCH dhcpcd[2491]: sending commands to master dhcpcd process
May 04 17:10:53 ISTVAN-ARCH wicd[283]: dhcpcd[2491]: sending commands to master dhcpcd process
May 04 17:10:53 ISTVAN-ARCH kernel: IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp3s0: link is not ready
May 04 17:11:03 ISTVAN-ARCH dhcpcd[2494]: wlp3s0: starting wpa_supplicant
May 04 17:11:03 ISTVAN-ARCH dhcpcd[328]: wlp3s0: waiting for carrier
May 04 17:11:03 ISTVAN-ARCH dhcpcd[328]: control command: /usr/sbin/dhcpcd -k wlp3s0
May 04 17:11:03 ISTVAN-ARCH dhcpcd[328]: wlp3s0: removing interface
May 04 17:11:05 ISTVAN-ARCH wicd[283]: ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
May 04 17:11:05 ISTVAN-ARCH wicd[283]: ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
May 04 17:11:05 ISTVAN-ARCH kernel: IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp3s0: link is not ready
May 04 17:11:05 ISTVAN-ARCH dhcpcd[328]: wlp3s0: waiting for carrier
May 04 17:11:41 ISTVAN-ARCH dhcpcd[2659]: sending commands to master dhcpcd process
May 04 17:11:41 ISTVAN-ARCH dhcpcd[328]: control command: /usr/sbin/dhcpcd -k wlp3s0
May 04 17:11:41 ISTVAN-ARCH dhcpcd[328]: wlp3s0: removing interface
May 04 17:11:41 ISTVAN-ARCH wicd[283]: dhcpcd[2659]: sending commands to master dhcpcd process
May 04 17:11:41 ISTVAN-ARCH kernel: IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp3s0: link is not ready

ip link:

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default 
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: enp5s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 14:da:e9:c4:a8:13 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlp3s0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 74:2f:68:9a:22:f2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

Many thanks,
Istvan.

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Another Wifi Problem

From the journal, it looks like dhcpcd is having problems with ipv6; try disabling it by appending your /etc/dhcpcd.conf file with:

noipv6rs

However, I'm a newbie & this is just a guess...

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