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Hi guys,
I got this Acer Aspire 5315 laptop back in august as a gift from someone I helped buy a new and better laptop. She just gave me her old one when she learned I didn't have one (I am a desktop guy) and was starting school soon.
As soon as I got it I put Mint 17.2 Cinnamon on it. I've been an Arch user for 2 years now but I felt Mint was going to be easier, more stable for me (doing school work on it so can't really risk an update breaking anything).
I felt like testing Arch to see if it could hold up to the task(mostly out of boredom) so I swapped hard drives with a spare one I had. Partitionned it as one should (separate /boot and /home partitions, yaddi yadda), proceeded to install arch along with xfce, the goodies and the intel drivers for the VGA adapter. It is going pretty good.
Now I'm going to get to the point here, wireless was a female dog to set up. Probably because it is my first time dealing with Arch and wireless. First of all wifi-menu seemed to work great at first, showing me all the networks and such, then asking for the passkey, then closing. pinging google didnt work, with dhcpcd started of course. Anyway after googling around, I can make it work temporarily by pressing Ctrl Alt F2 and doing the following fun activity;
modprobe ath5k
ip link set wlp6s0 up (not sure if really necessary tbh)
iwconfigwlp6s0 essid "mynetworkssid"
wpa_passphrase "mynetworkssid" "mypasskey" > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf (this is the command that forces me to do it as root, as any other user it returns a permission denied error)
wpa_supplicant -Dnl80211 -iwlp6s0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.confThen Ctrl Alt F3, loging as root again, and run dhcpcd (I'm assuming once I can automate the last parts I can avoid this part this by doing systemctl enable dhcpcd, only for now It would be useless since I need to do all this before starting it)
My question here is how do I automate this? I call those shenanigans
About the mousepad now. It acts up quite a bit(worked flawlessly in Mint, aside from the middle button click not working in firefox). When using it to move the cursor, as soon as my finger touches it the cursor changes position in a teleporting kind of fashion. Tapping the pad does not click, it also teleports it a few inches away. The middle button click does not work either.
Extra information because why not:
My user profile is added to the wheel group and the sudoers files, the wheel group is uncommented in the ALL section of Icantrememberwhichconfigfile
lscpci -k output:
[kochon@Arch14 ~]$ lspci -k
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0136
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
Kernel modules: intel_agp
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 03)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0136
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (secondary) (rev 03)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0136
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 04)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0136
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci_hcd
00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 04)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0136
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci_hcd
00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 04)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0136
Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci
Kernel modules: ehci_pci
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 04)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0136
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 04)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 04)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 04)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 04)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 04)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0136
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci_hcd
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 04)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0136
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci_hcd
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 04)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0136
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci_hcd
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 04)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0136
Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci
Kernel modules: ehci_pci
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f4)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 04)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0136
Kernel driver in use: lpc_ich
Kernel modules: lpc_ich
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 04)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0136
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix
Kernel modules: ata_piix, pata_acpi, ata_generic
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0136
Kernel driver in use: ahci
Kernel modules: ahci
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 04)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0136
Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
Kernel modules: i2c_i801
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0136
Kernel driver in use: tg3
Kernel modules: tg3
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. AR5BXB63 802.11bg NIC
Kernel driver in use: ath5k
Kernel modules: ath5kI apologize if this thread is lenghty, I am tired and trying to provide as much information and boring humor as I can.
Last edited by Kochon (2015-12-16 23:24:28)
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