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Apaulo

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Registered: 2008-01-31

Posts: 12

Wireless setup trouble

I haven't a little bit of trouble getting my wireless to work, i'm following the ArchWiki.

I installed wireless_tools

I installed my drivers

pacman -S iwlwifi iwlwifi-3945-ucode

I included it in the modules=() array

Now when i run ifconfig, i only see eth0 and lo listed, not wlan0.

From this point following the wiki doesn't work, if i run iwlist scan, lo, eth0, wmaster0 and wlan0 all say interface doesn't support scanning. wlan0 also says Network is down.

Probably an easy fix, i'm trying to get as much done with just the documentation that i can find, which so far has been amazing, but being such a Linux/ArchLinux newb i hit a few bumps.

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: Wireless setup trouble

Run ifconfig -a. You should see wlan0. Run ifconfig wlan0 up. Then try your iwconfig/iwlist stuff.

Last edited by byte (2008-02-01 11:38:11)

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Apaulo

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Registered: 2008-01-31

Posts: 12

Re: Wireless setup trouble

I ran ifconfig -a and all that it displayed was eth0 and lo

Then i ran ifconfig wlan0 up and i got:

wlan0: unknown interface: No such device

Any suggestions? I'm sure i'm doing something wrong or overlooking a step.

bangkok_manouel

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From: indicates a starting point

Registered: 2005-02-07

Posts: 1,556

Re: Wireless setup trouble

Were you using ipw3945 previously ?

SiC

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From: Liverpool, England

Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 430

Re: Wireless setup trouble

Can you do an lsmod and post the listings here mate?

Misfit138

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From: USA

Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 4,189

Re: Wireless setup trouble

Did you define the interface in /etc/rc.conf under INTERFACES? If the interface is not defined, it doesn't exist as far as NETWORK knows.
Goto the wireless article in the wiki and follow instructions for 'Phrakture's Trick' to define it.

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