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Hey everyone, I'm a complete noob to Archlinux. I have used Ubuntu and have had that running for a while. I've read good things about arch and have installed it on my M70 notebook.
The installation went fine except for two things:
1) My timezone failed when booting into linux. I'm not sure why but after I set the clock, the rc.conf didnt update it to match my timezone (Australia/Brisbane).
2) My network connection failed. This is where I'm really confused as I really don't now where to start. I'm not sure how I can find the name of wireless card for the laptop and how to setup DHCP and put in my WPA password.
I am wanting to install GNOME aswell, however, I need my connection working to install this.
Any help would be great!
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I just came across this:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wif … d_Firmware
So judging by this I typed in:
# lspci | grep -i net
And the output is:
6.02.0 Network Controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915AGB [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)
I then get up to:
# iwconfig
Output:
lo no wireless extensions
eth0 no wireless extensions
So I'm not sure what to do.
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Okay I've managed to get the connection up now. However, I hit another problem when updating the databases.
# pacman -Syu
# pacman -Syy
I typed in the first one and it updates the required packages fine.
When I run -Syy i get the following problem:
:: Synchronizing package databases...
error: failed to update core (unexpected error)
error: failed to update extra (unexpected error)
error: failed to update community (unexpected error)
error: failed to synchronize any databases
Any idea about what's wrong?
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Check your mirrorlist file in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist has 1 uncommented server. Try upgrading again. By default your mirrorlist file will nowadays be all commented out so you only need to uncomment 1 line. Up until recently, the behaviour was the opposite.
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