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#1 2016-09-20 20:14:05

skyspi007
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Cannot get wireless to work.

During the initial installation I used a wired connection. It worked fine all the way through. I followed the lifehacker guide and installed the wireless tools package with the below command.
pacman -S wireless-tools wpa-supplicant wpa-actiond dialog
Then I used wifi-menu to connect to my home wifi (which has wep protection). The profile in /etc/network.d was never created.
I then ran
systemctl enable net_auto_wireless.service
Finished installation and rebooted. I started with
sudo pacman -S alsa-utils
which failed to retrieve all the files. Then I pinged google and got nothing. I proceeded by repeating the above steps up to finishing the installation then checked the profile. It was there but saved under wl01-"mywirelessname"1. I created a new profile named wireless-wep and deleted the other oddly named one. Then I found out about netctl and tried
netctl start wireless-wep
failed because the control process exited with error code. Finally I went back to ethernet
systemctl start dhcpcd@eth0.service
but that failed because a dependency job failed.
I don't understand how journalctl -xe works so I haven't ran that yet.

System:
Elitebook 8440p
Wireless: Intel advanced-n 6200.

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#2 2016-09-20 20:22:54

ewaller
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Re: Cannot get wireless to work.

What are the output of ip link and iw list  ?


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#3 2016-09-20 20:23:43

Head_on_a_Stick
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Re: Cannot get wireless to work.

skyspi007 wrote:

I followed the lifehacker guide

Do you mean this guide:

https://lifehacker.com/5680453/build-a- … he-process

That guide is four years old and in that time has managed to attain a reputation on these boards; that reputation is not a good one.

That "guide" is outdated and error-ridden and should not be used. Ever.

failed because the control process exited with error code.

[...]

failed because a dependency job failed

Please post full error messages rather than vague descriptions.

See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

Please also post the full output of:

systemctl list-unit-files --state=enabled

I don't understand how journalctl -xe works so I haven't ran that yet.

You don't need to understand it, you just need to post the output here wink

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#4 2016-09-20 20:30:24

jasonwryan
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Re: Cannot get wireless to work.

Not an Installation issue, moving to NC...


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#5 2016-09-20 20:31:53

skyspi007
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Re: Cannot get wireless to work.

I kind of fixed it. Disabling dhcpcd.service will get it working unless I reboot. I don't feel like that's how it is supposed to work though. How can I fix it so it stays on even through a reboot? Is there an easier way to post outputs? I have two computers, this one and the arch-linux one and I don't want to type all of the outputs because they're multiple pages long. Also that is the guide I was using up until I read that post.

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#6 2016-09-20 20:35:43

ewaller
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Re: Cannot get wireless to work.

Well, you are skipping ahead smile  BTW, Welcome to Arch Linux.

You probably don't want the dhcpcd service to be enabled.  The things that are supposed to control the wireless will launch the dhcpcd deamon when then need it.  If the service is already running, bad things happen.
What is the output of find /etc/systemd   ?


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#7 2016-09-20 20:42:43

skyspi007
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Re: Cannot get wireless to work.

/etc/systemd
/etc/systemd.journald.conf
/etc/systemd/network
/etc/systemd/coredump.conf
/etc/systemd/logind.conf
/etc/systemd/user
/etc/systemd/journal-upload.conf
/etc/systemd/resolved.conf
/etc/systemdsystem.conf
/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants
/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@tty1.service
/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants
/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/dhcpcd@eth0.service
/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/netctl.service
/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/remote-fs.target
/etc/systemd/system/user.conf
/etc/systemd/system/timesyncd.conf

Edit:
Just rebooted and got:
Started netctl profile "mywireless"
(Re)store netctl profile state
Starting service dhcpcd
Stopped netctl profile "mywireless"

Last edited by skyspi007 (2016-09-20 20:48:49)

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#8 2016-09-20 20:59:41

Head_on_a_Stick
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Re: Cannot get wireless to work.

skyspi007 wrote:

Is there an easier way to post outputs?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?ti … in_clients

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