Arch Linux

MasterChief1234

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Registered: 2006-05-13

Posts: 49

Arch is great ! Have a few questions...

So far I have spent a good part of the day setting up my system. Gnome is up and running and almost everything is working. I have a few questions though:

1. Is it it difficult to get wireless working in Arch ? Especially a Broadcom card ?

2. Is network manager avaible in Arch or can I go ahead and install the Ubuntu/debian package ?

3. Are the msttffonts avaible ?

4. Is there a way to stop a kernel module from loading ? There is no /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.

They are all my questions for now.

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Arch is great ! Have a few questions...

1. Don't know, don't have wireless.

2. Don't know, never used a "network manager".

3. Yes, the package is ttf-ms-fonts, just install it with pacman and you're golden.

4. Use the blacklist in /etc/rc.conf, the central config file. Arch uses BSD-style initscripts instead of SystemV...

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Arch is great ! Have a few questions...

2. You could try: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=9122
I don't know how well it work.

4. Do as Gullible Jones said. However, if it's a filesystem or disk controller, you'll need to customize your initrd to prevent it to load. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ini … our_Initrd

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: Arch is great ! Have a few questions...

So far I have spent a good part of the day setting up my system. Gnome is up and running and almost everything is working. I have a few questions though:

1. Is it it difficult to get wireless working in Arch ? Especially a Broadcom card ?

for >=2.6.17 there's a native, though somewhat experimental module available in the kernel. 2.6.17 should be released any day, so this is probably your best choice.
for <2.6.17 you need to use ndiswrapper.

2. Is network manager avaible in Arch or can I go ahead and install the Ubuntu/debian package ?

there's a few packages for both the kde and gnome ones on the AUR.
http://aur.archlinux.org/

James

Ibex

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Registered: 2006-03-02

Posts: 135

Re: Arch is great ! Have a few questions...

So far I have spent a good part of the day setting up my system. Gnome is up and running and almost everything is working. I have a few questions though:

1. Is it it difficult to get wireless working in Arch ? Especially a Broadcom card ?

No, not at all. It's more like extremely easy if you read the wiki, and are not affraid of some trying arround.

4. Is there a way to stop a kernel module from loading ? There is no /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.

I guess the /etc/rc.conf will be the configuration file you are searching for.