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Thrillhouse

Member

From: Arlington, VA, USA

Registered: 2007-05-29

Posts: 175

Why can't I install wifi-radar?

I have a new laptop that I'm trying to connect to my wireless network.  I'm using XFCE and wanted to use wifi-radar as a sort of front end rather than Network Manager which has been flaky for me at best.  I've enabled the community repository in pacman.conf but can't install it with either pacman or yaourt.  Has it been taken out of the repos or something?

#pacman -S wifi-radar
error: 'wifi-radar': not found in sync db

#pacman -Ss wifi
core/iwlwifi 1.1.0-3
    Driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/4965AGN miniPCI
    express adapters
core/iwlwifi-3945-ucode 2.14.1.5-1
    Intel wireless firmware for IPW3945 (iwlwifi driver)
core/iwlwifi-4965-ucode 4.44.1.18-1
    Intel wireless firmware for IPW4965 (iwlwifi driver)
core/madwifi 0.9.3.3-1
    Madwifi drivers for Atheros wireless chipsets. For stock
    arch 2.6 kernel
core/madwifi-utils 0.9.3.3-1
    Userspace tools of madwifi drivers for Atheros wireless
    chipsets.
extra/xfce4-wavelan-plugin 0.5.4-3 (xfce4-goodies)
    plugin to monitor wifi connectivity for the Xfce4 panel

Last edited by Thrillhouse (2007-11-07 23:37:17)

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tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Why can't I install wifi-radar?

You have not enabled community correctly in pacman.conf. It should look like this:

[community]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/community

Both lines need to be uncommented.

Thrillhouse

Member

From: Arlington, VA, USA

Registered: 2007-05-29

Posts: 175

Re: Why can't I install wifi-radar?

They both are.  There's a commented line in between them but besides that, my entry's the exact same as yours.

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tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Why can't I install wifi-radar?

In that case, you haven't synced since enabling it. pacman -Sy wifi-radar will sort you out.

Thrillhouse

Member

From: Arlington, VA, USA

Registered: 2007-05-29

Posts: 175

Re: Why can't I install wifi-radar?

I could have sworn I did that.  Anyways, that did the trick.  Thanks.

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For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.