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slemKaffe

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Registered: 2007-11-20

Posts: 23

wireless problems

Hi, I'm a pretty new and happy arch user, no problems I haven't been able to handle  so far. It has been working fine for weeks up until this point, but after a reboot today I stumbled upon some problems regarding my wireless network. By the way, I'm using the iwlwifi drivers for intel wireless 3945 and the WICD nettworkmanager from AUR.

To be more precise: I can connect to my wireless network, and I have no problem using ssh to get access to my other computer on the same network. But nothing related to internet usage works, can't browse websites, can't use kmail and so on.

On my other computer (also running arch), there are no such problems: browsing and other similar tasks all works the way they are supposed to.

I just don't get it, how can this be? Could this in any way be related to the new core rebuilds?

fed359

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Registered: 2007-11-21

Posts: 46

Re: wireless problems

Sounds like it could be the DNS address, make sure everything's right with that. It looks like you can set a static DNS address with WICD too, if you're unable to grab it via DHCP.

ganja_guru

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Registered: 2005-02-14

Posts: 464

Re: wireless problems

which version of wicd are you running?

"pacman -Q wicd" will tell you.

slemKaffe

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Registered: 2007-11-20

Posts: 23

Re: wireless problems

which version of wicd are you running?

"pacman -Q wicd" will tell you.

wicd 1.31-3

Could it be the same problem as this? http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=40144

Update:

I just connected to my network using wire, and still no internet access even thogh i can connet to the other local machines.

Yet another update:

I managed to get internett access while connedted by wire using this command: dhcpd eth0
I guess that explains some of it, also updated my rc.conf to use dhcpd insted of dhcdbd.

So I uppdated my system (including wicd) using pacman, and for now wired network works the the way it should, but now I can't connect using wireless anymore. (at least not when using wicd it seems)

Oh my! Another update:

I just managed to get networkmanager to work by following the instructions in the wiki (for the first time ever when using the iwlwifi dirivers), so I guess I managed to solve this problem.

Last edited by slemKaffe (2007-11-21 14:50:19)

ganja_guru

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Registered: 2005-02-14

Posts: 464

Re: wireless problems

wicd is now in extra, "wicd-1.3.1-9". Also, make sure you install the optional deps 'wpa_supplicant' and 'dhclient'. I'll also be pushing the 'unstable' release of wicd to testing soon.

Last edited by ganja_guru (2007-11-21 15:13:03)