need help with wireless connection

apertotes · 2008-09-18 17:06:57

hi, i am a new arch user, and i am having trouble with wireless conection. i tried many times in the past, but i never had success, so yesterday i installed arch from scratch and used a wired conection to update the system and install kde.

now i am trying to get wifi working. i have the driver installed (iwl4965) and it is placed on the "modules" section of rc.conf, i have also "wireless tools" installed, although i do not know what i should do with it.

things are as follows. my network card is perfectly recogniced by the system, i can also look at the list of wireless access points (on the terminal, cause i do not know how to look at them from kde, i remember that on gnome there is a network manager daemon on the system tray, but i do not see something similar on kde), and my wireless network is seen there. i can even connect to it with

iwconfig wlan0 essid apertotes key xxxxxxxxxx

and when i run "iwconfig" i can see this

wlan0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"apertotes"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.432 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption key:xxxxxxxxxxx
Link Quality=100/100 Signal level=-32 dBm Noise level=-88 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

so i do a "dhcpcd wlan0" and after some seconds i get this

err, wlan0: timed out
err, wlan0: lease information file `/var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-wlan0.info' does notexist
warn, wlan0: using IPV4LL address 169.254.199.132

i am stuck here. i do not know what else to do.

kevin89 · 2008-09-18 17:38:49

I suggest you take a look at wicd. It's a graphical front-end to manage your internet connection.

Check out this wiki page: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wicd

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need help with wireless connection

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Re: need help with wireless connection

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