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zeerak

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Registered: 2007-12-24

Posts: 33

i don't like intel anymore

while it may be a bit unfair being that it's most likely my own fault.

I'm pretty new to linux, having spent a couple of months with ubuntu and wanting to try something where I would learn a tad bit more i made the switch to arch. It's installed fine and my wired lan connection works flawlessly. Just the issue of the wireless lan that's a bit of a mess.

I'm running with kde, and when I look at KWiFiManager i see that I'm connected to my router, but I don't get any ip address. Which most likely isn't the router being that it sends ip addresses out to 4 through the wireless.

My wireless card is an intel 4965, when i look in my rc.conf I see:

MODULES=(tg3 iwl4965 snd-mixer-oss snd-pmc-oss snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer and -snd-hda-intel soundcore

HOSTNAME="zeerak"
eth0="dhcp"
INTERFACE=(eth0)

gateway="default gw 19.168.1.1"
ROUTES=(!gateway)

wlan0="dhcp"
INTERFACE=(lo eth0 wlan0)

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond)

my iwconfig:

lo      no wireless extentions.
eth0  no wireless extensions.
wmaster0  no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEE 802.11G ESSID: "Area 51"
Mode: Managed Frequency: 2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:14:6C:13:EC
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s
Retry min limit:7  RTS thr: off  Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key : 948E-6DDx-xx
Link Quality=85/100 Signal level=-35 dBm Noise level=-80 dBm

let me know if you need to know anything else.

but any idea what it could be?

low

Member

Registered: 2007-07-04

Posts: 109

Re: i don't like intel anymore

do you have dhclient installed?

zeerak

Member

Registered: 2007-12-24

Posts: 33

Re: i don't like intel anymore

in all honesty, i dont know. i'll run pacman for it, so in a minute i will.

Edit:

alright just tried with dhclient and it worked cheers.

I had really thought the issue was a bit larger, but like said, it probably was an error i made, which it was, well kind of, more like an error i made that i didn't make.

But thank you none the less!

Last edited by zeerak (2007-12-24 22:11:07)

Reasons

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From: Washington

Registered: 2007-11-04

Posts: 572

Re: i don't like intel anymore

You have INTERFACE=(lo eth0 wlan0) specified twice. Try it with only the one I just posted. I think it's just reading the first one. I have the same card and had no problems with it like that.

Last edited by Reasons (2007-12-24 22:40:28)

Thrillhouse

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From: Arlington, VA, USA

Registered: 2007-05-29

Posts: 175

Re: i don't like intel anymore

You also have your default gateway set as 19.68.1.1.  I'm assuming that's supposed to be 192?

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zeerak

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Registered: 2007-12-24

Posts: 33

Re: i don't like intel anymore

okay, the 19.168.x.x was just a typing error.

and i shall do that reasons

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: i don't like intel anymore

okay, the 19.168.x.x was just a typing error.

and i shall do that reasons

Doesnt really matter as that gateway isnt enabled in the ROUTES=() line. Don't enable it though, dhcp sends out the correct gateway.